"Incensing"





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The king speaks (D):
 "I grasped the arm-shaped censer, I lift it with my arm offering incense to the Eye-of-Re (Hathor). ... You are joyful when myrrh of the best kind makes your smell pleasant and your body perfect so that you will be glad and unite with the Dappled-of-plumage."
 The divine column describes the goddess’s action caused by the ritual (E):
 „The Powerful one on the throne (Edfu), ... she who comes down to earth, when smelling incense, Hathor, the Great one, the Mistress-of-Dendera.“

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