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The Egyptian Pharaoh was always referred to as the Lord of the Two Lands. Western academia cavalierly stated that the Two Lands are Upper and Lower Egypt. There is not a single Ancient Egyptian reference to confirm their notion, or even to define such a frontier between Upper and Lower Egypt.
Throughout Ancient Egyptian temples, you will find numerous symbolic representations relating to the ceremony of Uniting the Two Lands, where two neteru are shown tying the papyrus and lotus plants. Neither plant is native to any specific area in Egypt. The most common representation shows the twin neteru, Hapi (a mirror-image of each other), each as unisex with one breast.
The term, Two Lands, is very familiar to the Baladi Egyptians, who refer to it in their daily life. It is their strong belief that there are Two Lands — the one we live on, and another one where our identical twins (of the opposite sex) live. The two are subject to the same experiences from date of birth to date of death. [More about this concept throughout this book, and particularly chapter 21.]
You and your “Siamese” twin, who “apparently” separate at birth, will re-unite again at the moment of death. The Baladi Egyptian Enumerators describe, in their lamentations after the death of a person, how the deceased is being prepared to join his/her counterpart (of the opposite sex), AS IF it is a marriage ceremony. This is reminiscent of the many symbolic illustrations in Ancient Egypt of the tying the knot of the Two Lands. To be married is to tie the knot.
As far back as the Unas (so-called “Pyramid”) Texts, one finds that the Pharaoh Unas (2356-2323 BCE) unites/joins with Auset (Isis) immediately after departing the earthly realm. This is based on the premise that since every man is Ausar in his "dead" form, each joins his/her counterpart (Auset in the case of a man), at the moment of the earthly departure.
For Ancient Egyptians, man, as a miniature universe, represents the created images of all creation. Since Ra — the cosmic creative impulse — is called, The One Join together, Who Comes Out of His Own Members, so the human being (the image of creation) is likewise, A One Joined Together. The human body is a unity that consist of different parts, joined together. In the Litany of Ra, the body parts of the divine man are each identified with a neter/netert.
If man is the universe in miniature, then all factors in man are duplicated on a greater scale in the universe. All drives and forces, which are powerful in man, are also powerful in the universe at large. In accordance with the Egyptians’ cosmic consciousness, every action performed by man is believed to be linked to a greater pattern in the universe, including sneezing, blinking, spitting, shouting, weeping, dancing, playing, eating, drinking, and sexual intercourse.
Man, to the Ancient Egyptians, was the embodiment of the laws of creation. As such, the physiological functions and processes of the various parts of the body were seen as manifestations of cosmic functions. The limbs and organs had a metaphysical function, in addition to their physical purpose. The parts of the body were consecrated to one of the neteru (divine principles), which appeared in the Egyptian records throughout its recovered history. In addition to the Litany of Ra, here are other examples: • Utterance 215 § 148-149, from the Sarcophagus Chamber of Unas’ Tomb (rubble pyramid) at Saqqara, identifies the parts of the body (head, nose, teeth, arms, legs, etc), each with the divine neteru.
Thy head is that of Heru (Horus) . . . thy nose is a Anbu (Anubis) thy teeth are Sopdu thy arms are Happy and Dua-mutef, . . . thy legs are Imesty and Kebeh-senuf, . . . All thy members are the twins of Atum.
My hair is Nun; my face is Ra; my eyes are Het-Heru (Hathor); my ears are Wepwawet; my nose is She who presides over her lotus-leaf; my lips are Anbu (Anubis); my molars are Selket; my incisors are Auset (Isis); my arms are the Ram, the Lord of Mendes; my breast is Net (Neith); my back is Set (Seth); my phallus is Ausar (Osiris); . . . my belly and my spine are Sekhmet; my buttocks are the Eye of Heru (Horus); my thighs and my calves are Nut; my feet are Ptah; . . . there is no member of mine devoid of a neter (god), and Tehuti (Thoth) is the protection of all my flesh.
there is no member of mine devoid of a neter (god),