Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
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' P D nii f • ^^-^ ^ ^"^ P- 9' ^ 593). » Ihid., t VII. p. 167 (L 444). « Ibid., t VII, p. 150 (1. 261). ^ Ibid., t. Ill, p. 182 (1. 17). Digitized by Google The^Gods of the Book of the Dead 193 " Chapter of those who come forth," and the "[Chapter of] those who ascend/' ^ In the Judgment Scene in the Book of the Dead, grouped round the pan. of the balance, which contains the heart of the deceased (see Plate III), are three beings in human form, who bear the names ohai, Renenet, and Meskhenet Sh...ai ^2^^flfl ^» is the personification of Fate, and Renenet ;;^'^^> of Fortune; these names are usually found coupled. Shai and Renenet are said to be in the hands of Thoth, the divine intelligence of the gods ; and Rameses II boasts that he himself is ''lord of Shai and creator of Renenet."* Shai was originally the deity who '' fated " what should happen to a man, and Renenet, as may be seen from the Pyramid Texts,* was the goddess of plenty, good fortune, and the like ; subsequently no distinction was made between these deities and the abstract ideas which they represented.
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