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“It was awe of the unfathomable wonder of the divine birth as portrayed in the twelfth nocturnal hour that must have caused this hesitation to depict it. Where the sacred is so intensely present, it is best to keep silent and not to depict or name it. The same is true of numinous power in its darkest form-thus the reluctance of the Egyptian artists in the face of the unfathomable in the case of Apopis. Only with great caution did they bear witness to this archenemy of creation or even depict the monster unfettered.”

Andreas Schweizer, The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat
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The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat by Andreas Schweizer
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