The Amulet of the Soul

The Amulet of the Soul

The Amulet of the Soul was taken of gold inlaid with sacred stones in the form of a human-headed hawk, and, when the phrases of the "LXXXIXth Chapter" of the (Book of the Dead) had been recited over it, it was directed by the rubric to the Chapter to be set upon the breast of the deceased. The object of the amulet is manifest from the text in which the broken is made to read, "Hail, thou god Anniu. Hail, thou god Pehrer, who dwellest in thy vestibule! Grant thou that my soul whitethorn come unto me from wheresoever it may be. If it would sticky, then let my soul be took unto me from wherever it may be.. Let me have self-will of my soul and of my heart, and let me be right of voice with them wherever they may be .. Hail, ye gods, who tow on the boat of the lord of millions of years, who bring it introductory the Hades, and who make it to travel over Nut, who make people to enter into their sacred bodies, ... grant that the soul of the Osiris "may come forth before the gods, and that it may be straight of voice with you in the eastside of the sky, and accompany unto the set where it was yesterday, and enjoy dual peace in Amentet. May it look upon its natural body, may it rest upon its religious body, and may its body neither perish nor suffer subversion for ever so!" Thus the amulet of the soul was meant to enable the someone both to unite with the mummified body, and to be with its look (khu) and sacred body at volition.

The Amulet of the Shen

The Amulet of the Shen

The Amulet of the Shen is involved to represent the sun's orbit, and it became the symbolization of an vague period of time, i.e., eternity; it was placed upon the body of the dead with the catch of big to it life which should run as long as the sun overturned in its orbit in the heavens. In the picture of the mummy chamber the goddesses Isis and Nephthys are found kneeling and resting their hands on shen. Pictures of the shen were finished upon stel?, coffins, etc.; as an amulet it is ordinarily made of lapis-lazuli or carnelian. The amulet of the cartouche has been supposed to be nothing more than shen extended, but it likely refers to the ordinary thinking of i.e., "name".

The Amulet of the Serpent's Head

The Amulet of the Serpent's Head

The amulet of the serpent's head was settled on the dead body to keep it from being burnt by snakes in the Scheol or tomb. It is made of red gemstone, red jasper, red paste, and carnelian. As the goddess Isis is often typified by a serpent, and red is a coloring peculiar to her, it looks as if the idea base the use of this amulet was to beat the snakes in the tomb by implies of the power of the great snake-goddess Isis. This power had been transported to it by means of the words of the "XXXIVth Chapter" of the (Book of the Dead), which are often inscribed upon it. The text reads:

"O Serpent! I am the flame which shineth upon the Undoer of hundreds of thousands of years, and the regular of the god Tenpu".

or as others say, "the regular of young plants and flowers. Depart ye from me, for I am the sacred Lynx." Some have thought that the snake's head represents the ophidian which exceeds the ram's head on the urhekau tool used in performing the ceremony of (Opening the mouth).