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Mandjet

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The named day-barque of Ra in Egyptian solar story. Not Mesektet the night-barque, and not a generic ship under a Nile name.

Also known as Barque of millions of years

Egyptian religion

  • Mandjet appears in Egyptian religion.

    The Book of the Dead names Mandjet, the day-barque of Re’s sky-crossing. A named solar boat in that corpus, not Mesektet the night-barque and not Userhat the Theban festival bark.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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  • Mandjet is sacred to Ra.

    The Book of the Dead names the Mandjet as Ra’s day barque. A named solar boat of that god, not the Mesektet, and not a generic ship.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

    sacred to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)

    Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.