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Spittle in Ancient Egyptian Religious Texts

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Spittle carried important symbolic reference in Pyramid texts, Coffin texts and the Book of the Dead, where it was related to the gods like the god “Horus" who spat milk from his mouth and spat his Spittle to face his enemy “Seth". Spittle was also related to the god “Papi" who spat poison on the body. Spittle also participated in treatments from diseases, where spitting on wounds helped them to cure, while spitting on hair locks helped its growth. 
  Rivers flow with spittle discharging from the mouth to open by this the horizon doors so that the deceased could ascend to heaven.
Spittle was connected to myths like the creation myth, the myth of Horus and Seth, solar myths such as “Re and Apopis".

DOI

10.21608/bcps.2021.204070

Keywords

Spittle, Body Efflux, mouth, Creation myths, Purification

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رانيا

Last Name

عبد العزيز

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fayoum university , Egyptology Department

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ram01@fayoum.edu.eg

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fayoum

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38

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1

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28705

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2021-11-01

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2021-11-10

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2021-11-01

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239

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259

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1110-2055

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2636-3186

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666

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Bulletin of the Center Papyrological Studies

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https://bcps.journals.ekb.eg/

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Spittle in Ancient Egyptian Religious Texts

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22 Jan 2023