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Egyptian Book of the Celestial Cow

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by Mel White
published on 10 August 2019

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The Book of the Celestial Cow is one of the classic pieces of Egyptian funerary texts from the New Kingdom - the story of Re, Hathor, and the near destruction of humanity by the Eye of Re (Hathor-Sekhmet).

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