THE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS OF BONES IN TEXTS OF EDFU TEMPLE

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This paper focuses on the multifaceted concepts of bones in texts of Edfu temple. Many religious concepts refer to this issue such as the triumph over the forces of chaos, the legend of Osiris in which his two sisters collected his limbs and bones together, and the myth of Khnum who creates the semen from bones.

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