Achom

Achom is a term from Egyptian mythology , which in older religious literature is a name for godly beings, including the king .

A characteristic of an achom is a "force that overcomes everything, accelerates quickly and resembles the thrust of a bird of prey". In the course of time the association of the word changed from a concept of power to the external appearance of gods in the form of falcons. At the same time, in the belief in the dead, the meaning shifted from the term for “ soul ” to “God's body”. From the late period “Achom” became almost another word for “ falcon ” and from the New Kingdom it was used more widely and became a general name for images of gods. Occasionally the term is also related to the dead body . In the later period, the deceased was finally addressed more often as "Achom NN ".

literature

Hans Bonnet: Real Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Berlin 1952, DNB 450553388 , p. 4.

Remarks

↑ Also with

or

as a determinative
↑ This is sometimes referred to as the "strongest of the Achom" (Pyr. 407)

Individual evidence

^ H. Bonnet: Reallexikon der Ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte. Berlin 1952, p. 4.
^ National Museums in Berlin: Hieratic Papyrus from the Royal Museums in Berlin. Volume 1–5, Leipzig 1901–1911; Wilhelm Spiegelberg : The falcon designation of the deceased in the late period. In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity . Volume 62, p. 29.

[1] Also with

or

as a determinative

[2] This is sometimes referred to as the "strongest of the Achom" (Pyr. 407)

[3] H. Bonnet: Reallexikon der Ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte. Berlin 1952, p. 4.

[4] National Museums in Berlin: Hieratic Papyrus from the Royal Museums in Berlin. Volume 1–5, Leipzig 1901–1911; Wilhelm Spiegelberg : The falcon designation of the deceased in the late period. In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity . Volume 62, p. 29.