Heh
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Heh , also Huh or occasionally Hah , is an ancient Egyptian deity who was assigned to the eighth hood of Hermopolis . It symbolizes the spatial and temporal endlessness. In this respect, the god was also the epitome of the earth's atmosphere (air) and was also considered to be the bearer of the sky.
In this role he could be both a counterpart and a manifestation of the god Schu . Often, because of his personification , Heh is depicted kneeling and with his hands raised. In addition, his picture in the script also stands as a number for "one million" and here also as a metaphor for the endlessness of numbers.
Heh's wife is Hehet . Both belong to the eightness of Hermopolis , which represents the cosmogony before the creation of the world.
Heh and hehet
Heh as infinite waters of chaos
Chair with the god Heh ( tomb of Tutankhamun )
See also
literature
- Hartwig Altenmüller : Mindfulness. In: Lexicon of Egyptology. Volume 1: A - Harvest. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , column 56-57.
- Hartwig Altenmüller: Heh. In: Lexicon of Egyptology. Volume 2: Harvest Festival - Hordjedef. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-447-01876-3 , column 1082-1084.
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd unchanged edition. Nikol, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 268.
- Manfred Lurker : Lexicon of the gods and symbols of the ancient Egyptians. Handbook of the mystical and magical world of Egypt. Special edition, Scherz, Bern et al. 1998, ISBN 3-502-16430-4 , pp. 89-90.
Web links
- Faience vessel from Enkomi with a picture of the god Heh: Faience vessel decorated with a depiction of the god Heh . Picture from the collection of the British Museum ; Retrieved July 10, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hieroglyphs and transcription according to Rainer Hanning: Large concise dictionary of Egyptian and German (= cultural history of the ancient world. Vol. 64). 2nd edition, von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 1227.