Liver — Heracleopolis (Naref)

Visceral life and embalming geography

The anatomical identity is the liver, placed in the upper abdomen on anatomical-right (the image's left). Heracleopolis, specifically the Naref Osiris tradition, is the relic-site claim rendered here from Dendera's local rite; the liver-to-Naref pairing is a cautious body-as-landscape synthesis, not a direct textual identification.

Head — Abydos / MemphisRight eye — HeliopolisLeft eye — LetopolisMouth and tongue — White Wall (Memphis)Neck — Diospolis ParvaHeart — BusirisRight hand — Athribite nomeLeft hand — SaisLiver — Heracleopolis (Naref)Liver — Heracleopolis (Naref)Spleen — Hermopolis ParvaBackbone — White Wall / RosetauRight leg and foot — Letopolis nomeLeft leg and foot — AbydosPhallus — Mendes

Point 9 of 14 in Osiris — the fourteen scattered parts

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Mysteries of Osiris at Dendera (primary_canonical)

The text names Osiris of Naref presiding at Heracleopolis and gives that region a divine-relic rite; it does not specify a liver.

Coffin Texts (primary_canonical)

Funerary texts preserve visceral protection and bodily reconstitution motifs; they do not establish the Heracleopolis pairing.

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