Kites

Kites were Egyptian women who were hired or pressed into service during funerals to accompany and greet the coffins of the gone when they were taken to the necropolises. Professional mourners, the kites roared and evidenced their grief at each funeral. They are described in some renditions of the Book Of The Dead.

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Amduat

The hieroglyphic
of Amduat

Amduat or Amtuat was a mortuary text depicted on the walls in the tomb of Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.E.) in the Valley of the kings in Thebes, the  Amduat, Book of  that  which  is  in  the  Hell,  shows  the nightly journey of the god Ra, a epitome of the sojourn required of the gone.

1st and 2nd oclock
night in the Amduat

The time is 3,
from tomb (KV34)

The Amduat is divided into 12 segments, doing fields  or caverns, and traces  the pathway into the earth that  parts at  the gateway of  the west horizon. The text contains numerous adventures and rags but ends in spiritual repurchase and the attainment of heaven.

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·        Neferheteperes (Princess)
·        Meketre
·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy

Khuy

Khuy was the father-in-law of King Pepi I (2289-2255 B.C.E.). Khuy was a Nomarch and the father of Ankhnesmery-Re (1) and (2), who become Pepi I's checks and the mothers of the heritors. His son, Djau, answered as counsel and adviser for Pepi I and Pepi II.

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·        Khons
·        Khunianupu
·        Amara
·        Neferheteperes (Princess)
·        Meketre
·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet