15/59
[ stop the slideshow ]

The Creation

The Creation.gif Anhai bowing before her father and mother. The Elysian Fields. From the Papyrus of Anhai (XXIInd dynasty)ThumbnailsThe Sky as a cowAnhai bowing before her father and mother. The Elysian Fields. From the Papyrus of Anhai (XXIInd dynasty)ThumbnailsThe Sky as a cowAnhai bowing before her father and mother. The Elysian Fields. From the Papyrus of Anhai (XXIInd dynasty)ThumbnailsThe Sky as a cowAnhai bowing before her father and mother. The Elysian Fields. From the Papyrus of Anhai (XXIInd dynasty)ThumbnailsThe Sky as a cowAnhai bowing before her father and mother. The Elysian Fields. From the Papyrus of Anhai (XXIInd dynasty)ThumbnailsThe Sky as a cowAnhai bowing before her father and mother. The Elysian Fields. From the Papyrus of Anhai (XXIInd dynasty)ThumbnailsThe Sky as a cowAnhai bowing before her father and mother. The Elysian Fields. From the Papyrus of Anhai (XXIInd dynasty)ThumbnailsThe Sky as a cow

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.