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the hours of the day and night (and hence, for example, the 12
goddesses of the night hours), as a multiple of both three and
four the number may also connote the combined significance of
those smaller numbers. Relatively few groups of twelve occur in
ancient Egyptian mythology, however, one example being the four
groups of three Egyptian gods with the head of ibises, jackals,
falcons and pheonixes which represented the "royal ancestors"
of the cities Hermopolis, Nekhen, Pe, and Heliopolis
respectively. These deities are sometimes found in vignettes
accompanying Chapters 107 and 111-16 of the Book of the Dead,
though often not all twelve of the deities are depicted.
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