Aha (Egyptian mythology)
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Aha ˁḥ3 the fighter |
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Aha ( fighter ) was an ancient Egyptian deity that has been documented with certainty since the Middle Kingdom . Aha appears first on the so-called magic knives . It is usually shown frontally. The face is surrounded by a mane , perhaps that of a baboon or a lion . He has snakes or knives in his hands. In the New Kingdom he is mostly shown in profile, sometimes he is depicted with wings. Overall, his image resembles that of Bes . There was a female equivalent, ahat . Aha protected mother and child and was god of dance and music. It appeared early in the Sed festival , when priests wore masks of aha.
Aha, like Thoth, comes from the 15th Upper Egyptian district of Hermopolis and is therefore closely related to this god. From the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic times, Aha appears with the name ending -tj , for example in the form ˁḥ3tj or ḥ3jtj . Connections to the hippopotamus goddess Thoëris are also known.
literature
- Hartwig Altenmüller : Aha. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume I, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , Sp. 96-98.
Individual evidence
- ^ Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. (Lemma number 39970). Retrieved June 26, 2012 .