Am-hehu

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Am-hehu in hieroglyphics
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Am-hehu
ˁm-ḥḥw
devourer of the millions of shadow devourers

Am-hehu (also Am-heh or Am-schut ) is an ancient Egyptian god from the text collection of the Egyptian Book of the Dead . In this important documentation of Egyptian mythology , he is portrayed as one of 43 judge deities of the judgment of the dead who judged the dead in the Hall of Complete Truth . According to the naming of the judges of the dead, especially in the 125th verse of the dead book, he is also called The Judges of the Dead .

Under the presiding judge Osiris , Am-hehu was responsible as an associate judge for punishing the crimes of theft , robbery, murder and greed . That is why he was first called under his individual name, Shadow Devourer , and later, in Greco-Roman times , appropriately referred to as the devourer of the millions . Another nickname was The One from the Pit .

See also

literature

  • Richard H. Wilkinson : The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Belief, power, mythology. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-17268-X .
  • Friedrich Graf: The Egyptian Faith, Volume II: The Egyptian concept of the afterlife and gods in ancient Egypt. 1st new edition, Books on Demand (BoD), Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-8081-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedrich Graf: The Egyptian Faith, Volume II: The Egyptian conception of the afterlife and gods in ancient Egypt. Norderstedt 2011, pp. 136-137 ( at google-books ).
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich Graf: The Egyptian Faith, Volume II: The Egyptian conception of the afterlife and gods in ancient Egypt. Norderstedt 2011, pp. 31 & 68.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Graf: The Egyptian Faith, Volume II: The Egyptian conception of the afterlife and gods in ancient Egypt. Norderstedt 2011, p. 136.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Graf: The Egyptian Faith, Volume II: The Egyptian conception of the afterlife and gods in ancient Egypt. Norderstedt 2011, p. 138.
  5. ↑ Proverb 125 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in: Erik Hornung: The Book of the Dead of the Egyptians. New edition, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-7608-1201-5 .
  6. ↑ Richard H. Wilkinson: The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Belief, power, mythology. Darmstadt 2003, p. 84.