What renders the obtrusiveness of the Osirian element in Tutankhamen’s ritual additionally significant is the fact that he had been a worshipper of the sun’s disc, the Aton, and had just been converted to that denomination of the Re-cult which was associated with Amen. But although these different forms of the sun-cult were in turn his confessed beliefs, it is a striking demonstration of the fundamental nature of the Osirian cult that it dominates the ceremonies of Tutankhamen’s death and burial.
Footnotes:
[1] Ancient Records of Egypt, Vol. II. pp. 420-427.
[2] This was written in January 1923.
[3] See Egypt Exploration Fund publication, Deir el Bahari, II, Plate LI.
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