Thank you for your kind compliments. Your findings sound interesting, did you get any photos to share with us?

You seem to always be in Egypt, lucky you.

Like anything in Ancient Egypt, a thing’s function or meaning can be multi-faceted due to the long spans of history involved. I suspect that the original meaning is sometimes lost and even though it might still be practised in later times the original significance may no longer be known.

While looking for photos to use in this article, for example, on more than one occasion I found images where Duamutef’s name was written on the canopic jar with the Hawk’s head, which is of course, Qebehsenuef.

Like this one in the British Museum. It could be that the lids have been switched but I assume the BM wouldn’t make such an obvious mistake and must then be how they were found in the tomb. Perhaps a sign that the priests responsible for the funerary preparations were not aware of the meaning of Duamutef and Qebehsenuef.

Vincent.

It is a great post which you have created here about the four sons of Horus, I really like the way that you write (much better than I’ll ever be). I am personally more into the last part of your post, as you have probably figured out. I adore the stars the most ancient of any religious belief. You could also call them the guardians of the constellation of Orion ‘the collected body of Osiris’ (my personal opinion). I find Duamutef/Tuamutef to be even more complex than they are together (the four sons).

Right now I am in Egypt (again again – doing my private studies) and I went to a death temple here the other day, and there I found Duamutef’s name placed by the constellation, and in each temple I find his name and his presence very clear, but the other tree sons, are not to be found in the same manner, which brings up a lot of questions, as to their ‘functions’ both together and separate.
Sincerely,
Karima L.