Abstract
Coffin Text instances of the expressions im.y-wr.t (‘3) and t3-wr (‘3) in the context of the solar circuit are discussed. In this corpus, these terms consistently follow a geographical frame of orientation that is the same in the Underworld as in the real world, contrary to other basic human functions which are inverted in the Underworld. More specifically, the addition of the ‘indirect genitives’ n p.t/n t3 to these two terms respectively indicates that the earth is the spatial point of reference during the underworld journey, whilst the sky plays the same role during the journey in the world of the living.
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