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A pillar-amulet of Egyptian speech, the backbone of Osiris in later reading. Not a generic ladder, and not the ankh under a taller name.

Egyptian religion

Djed appears in Egyptian religion.
The Book of the Dead includes spells of the djed-pillar, the backbone-sign of Osiris. A named funerary pillar of that corpus, not a generic column and not the ushabti worker.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Djed is sacred to Osiris.
The Book of the Dead treats the djed-pillar as Osiris’s backbone-sign. A named pillar of that god, not the tyet, and not a generic column.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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sources

Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.