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[4.] Effluxes,
, the ἰχώρ, the vital sap, as it were, of the body of Osiris, which is the source of life both to men and to gods,[[71]] and in default of which his own heart (Unas 12) would cease to beat. It is celebrated in all the mythological texts extant from the time of the Pyramids down to the latest inscriptions of Denderah and Edfu, and even in Demotic documents.[[72]] All moisture was supposed to proceed from it, and the Nile was naturally identified with it.
In the Pyramid texts (Pepi 66)
