Priest of seven worms
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Jump to navigationJump to search- E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead (1920): “Chapter I was recited by the priest who accompanied the mummy to the tomb and performed the burial ceremonies there. In it the priest (kher heb) assumed the character of Thoth and promised the deceased to do for him all that he had done for Osiris in days of old. Chapter IB gave the sahu, or "spirit-body," power to enter the Tuat immediately after the burial of the material body, and delivered it from the Nine Worms that lived on the dead.”
- Worms: the allusion here is to Worms, the city in Germany in which seven diets occurred, most notably the Diet of Worms in 1521. This was an imperial diet (assembly) of the Holy Roman Empire called by Emperor Charles V. This one is most memorable for the Edict of Worms (Wormser Edikt), which addressed Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. → Pete, Jake or Martin
