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The Tekenu and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Ritual

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Tekenu is a man wrapped in a kind of shroud sit or in foetal position.
There was in ancient Egypt a prehistoric rite where a royal adolescent was sacrificed and wrapped into an animal skin. After the young’s death, the king would cover himself with that animal skin obtaining so the vitality the teenager had impregnated. This gesture would symbolize the king’s return to his mother womb and the following rebirth; granting this way the renovation of the sovereign.


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