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| Mehen keeping the bark of Ra |
God Mehen was a coiled serpent-deity preservative the boat in which the sun-deity Ra travels over the Hades. His coils envelope the kiosk on the decorate of the boat. The earliest quotation of the deity comes in a Coffin Text of the
Middle Kingdom. Certain representation of the coiled one can be found in vignettes of funerary papyri and on the ramparts of tombs in the
Valley of the Kings, specially
Seti I 19th Dynasty , and
Ramses VI 20th Dynasty.
