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Court of Amen 19

To the Middle-Kingdom Egyptian, the phrase to "walk on his water"
refered to being a "servant" or follower of a King or noble,
dedicated to his cause, and perhaps receiving grace or bounty in
return. By the time of Khemetic New Kingdom, the phrase "who walks on his water"
had come to mean follower of a particular deity rather than a king,
in a new era of "personal piety" that had no precedent in earlier
times. Although there is no exact AE term for "personal piety" or
indeed "religion", nevertheless such phrases as "to put (named deity)
into one´s heart" does indicate such.

The Middle Kingdom ideal of a Heart-Guided individual was replaced by New Kingdom "God-guided heart."

This House of Navigation or "Steering Oar" in Senate embodies this
notion, cite the teachings of Amenemope, later Ramesside Period:

"Make yourself heavy in your heart, make your heart steadfast,
Do not steer with your tongue.
(Accepted) the tongue of man is the rudder of the boat,
But the God-of-All (Amen-Ra) is its steersman."

Amenemope XX 3-6, Grumarch, Untersuchungen, 124-128.

So I would speculate that the Christian story Jesus of "walking on water"
comes from the Khemetic notion of service and loyalty to a noble, and in
later times a (city) god. The notion of ´passing over water´in the
burial boat might also contribute to the imagery of this phrase.
The "walk on his water" implies to follow your leige to eternity.

"Who follows him will be a tomb owner,
death reaches him not.
He dies sated with life and reaches the burial
who walks on his water.
One recognises the praised one by his great name, (Amen-Ra I think)
his reward is that of a blameless transfigured one."

CGC 42 K Jansen -Winkeln, Aegyptische Biographien 22 & 23 Dynasty
(Wiesbaden 1985) Vol 1, 194, Vol II, 543.