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The sun rises from the mound of creation at the beginning of time. The central circle represents the mound, and the three orange circles are the sun in different stages of its rising. At the top is the "horizon" hieroglyph with the sun appearing atop it. At either side are the goddesses of the north and south, pouring out the waters that surround the mound. The eight stick figures are the gods of the Ogdoad, hoeing the soil. |
| Date | Book published 2003; artwork made in Twenty-first Dynasty (c. 1075–945 BC) |
| Source | Scanned from the book Ancient Egypt, edited by David P. Silverman, p. 121; photograph from the Book of the Dead of Khensumose |
| Author | Original artist unknown |
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| current | 23:00, 26 January 2015 | | 1,840 × 1,232 (1.46 MB) | SteinsplitterBot | Bot: Image rotated by 180° |
| 21:12, 26 January 2015 |  | 1,849 × 1,245 (1.49 MB) | A. Parrot | Managed to get the page properly flattened on the scanner this time | |
| 05:40, 18 December 2011 |  | 1,520 × 1,047 (834 KB) | Rotatebot | Bot: Image rotated by 90° | |
| 03:03, 17 December 2011 |  | 1,047 × 1,529 (838 KB) | A. Parrot | {{Information |Description ={{en|1=The sun rises from the mound of creation at the beginning of time. The central circle represents the mound, and the three orange circles are the sun in different stages of its rising. At the top is the "horizon" hiero |
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