The Phoenix

Inerkhau is facing west in adoration in front of the Benu bird, dressed in his long festive robes and wearing his regular wig (the phoenix). It resembles a heron morphologically. It is crowned by Atef. It was associated with Osiris and Ra at one point, representing linear and cyclic time, and was so incorporated in the burial stories. “Formula to transform into the Benu by the Foreman in the Place of Truth, Inerkhau, justified,”