POGP Central article on Figure 7 of Facsimile 2 exploring issues surrounding its identification.

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2020
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Pearl of Great Price Central
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Hearsay
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"God Sitting Upon His Throne (Facsimile 2, Figure 7) Book of Abraham Insight #33," Pearl of Great Price Central, January 20, 2020, accessed November 24, 2021

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Pearl of Great Price Central
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Pearl of Great Price Central
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Figure 7 in Facsimile 2 is identified as follows: “Represents God sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove.” Appearing in several other ancient Egyptian hypocephali, the sitting personage in Figure 7 has been described by one Egyptologist as “a polymorphic god sitting on his throne” with “the back of him is bird-form, while one of his arms is raised [in] the attribution” of the gods Min or Amun “and hold[ing] forth a flagellum.” Standing next to him is a “falcon- or snake-headed snake” believed to perhaps be the minor deity Nehebkau, who “offers the wedjat-eye.”

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