[1.] The Egg in the unseen world is the globe of the Sun while yet below the horizon. It is only through a mistranslation of chapter 54, 2 that the Indian notion of a ‘Mundane Egg’ has been ascribed to the Egyptians.
The 17th chapter addresses “Rā in thine Egg, who risest up in thine orb, and shinest from thine Horizon.”
[2.] See the picture of Osiris at the head of the Staircase, which is here given (see [Plate XI]) from the alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I in the Soane Museum. Similar pictures are given on other sarcophagi. The gods on the stairs are called
