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The Creation

The Creation.gif Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swampThumbnailsThe Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani (XVIIIth dynasty)Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swampThumbnailsThe Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani (XVIIIth dynasty)Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swampThumbnailsThe Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani (XVIIIth dynasty)Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swampThumbnailsThe Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani (XVIIIth dynasty)Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swampThumbnailsThe Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani (XVIIIth dynasty)Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swampThumbnailsThe Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani (XVIIIth dynasty)Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swampThumbnailsThe Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani (XVIIIth dynasty)

The god Nu rising out of the primeval water and bearing in his hands the boat of Rā, the Sun-god, who is accompanied by a number of deities. In the upper portion of the scene is the region of the underworld which is enclosed by the body of Osiris, on whose head stands the goddess Nut with arms stretched out to receive the disk of the sun.