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Original fileBD Weighing of the Heart - Tefnut
The figure is a human-bodied deity with the head of a lioness, seated in profile on a dark-colored chair. She wears a solar disk—a large, reddish-brown circle—atop her head. Her body is covered in a textured, scale-like pattern, and she holds a tall, narrow scepter in both hands. Hieroglyphic text appears vertically behind her head, and a small avian figure is visible in the upper left corner.
Tefnut is the ancient Egyptian goddess of moisture and rain, representing the principle of orderly change, and appears in the funerary contexts of the 'Book of the Dead' as part of the divine pantheon overseeing the afterlife journey.
𓏏𓆑𓈖𓏏
Translation
Tefnut
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
This image is a standard iconographic depiction of a deity found in funerary papyri.
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