I am
one of you,
I have appeared as a
vulture.
My face is a
falcon,
The top of
my head is
Re.
My eyes are
Two Women, the
Two Sisters,
My nose is the
Horus of the
Netherworld.
My mouth is the
Sovreign of the West,
My throat is
Nun.
My two arms are the
Embracing One,
My fingers are the
Graspers.
My breast is
Khepri,
My heart is
Horus-Sunen.
My liver is the the
Living One,
My spleen is the
One with the Beak.
My stomach is the
Opening One,
My entrails are the
One with the Secret Essence.
My back is the
Weary of Heart,
My spine is the
One on the bier.
My ribs are
Horus and
Thoth,
My anus is the
Great Flood.
My phallus is
Tatenen,
My glans is the
Protected One in
Old Cairo.
My testicles are the
Two Hidden Ones,
My thighs are the
two Goddesses.
My calves are the
Two Shining Ones,
My feet are the
One Who Passes Through Mysteries,
My toes are
cobra snakes.
My limbs are
gods,
I am entirely a god,
No limb of mine is
without god.
I enter as a god,
And I
exit as a god,
The gods have transformed themselves into my body...
The above is called The Litany of Re. Dating from the Pharonic period of Egyptian history, the actual association with each body part with a god is not important - but the indication of the formation of the body, done in stages is important. Support for this comes from the various different versions of this found in history, using different gods. However, the overall point of physical integrity, and formation of the body remains important, and a constant over several thousand years of use.