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| | Diary of Samuel Pepys - Volume 35_ May_June 1665 . Samuel Pepys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | His soul, in the form of a man-headed hawk standing upon a pylon, is present, also a man-headed, rectangular object, resting upon a pylon, which has frequently been supposed to represent the deceased in an embryonic state. |
 | | It is most probable, as the reading of the name of the object is _Meskhenet_, and as the deity Meskhenet represents sometimes both Shai and Renenet, that the artist intended the object to represent both deities, even though we find the god Shai standing below it close to the standard of the balance. |
 | | Close by the soul stand two goddesses called Meskhenet and Renenet respectively; the former is, probably, one of the four goddesses who assisted at the resurrection of Osiris, and the latter the personification of Fortune, which has already been included under the _Meskhenet_ object above, the personification of Destiny. |
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