Amenti
| Amenti and Amenu in hieroglyphics | ||||||
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Amenu Jmnw The one in secret |
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Amenti Imntj The Western / The one belonging to the hidden |
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Amenti (also Amenu ) is an ancient Egyptian god , the "Western", the male counterpart to Amentet . Amenti lived in a tree on the edge of the desert. He guarded the entrance to the duat and received the new dead with bread and water.
background
New kingdom
In the New Kingdom , the merger with the god of the dead Amenu of the Old Kingdom gives rise to the new manifestation Amenti. At the same time, Amenti as Re is the “ justified dead ”; a title already held by the kings in the Old Kingdom when they died and then transitioned to the Duat as Horus who had previously lived . With the later cult of Re, the name was changed from Horus to Re.
Amenti is also the "chief of his secret" and " chief of the mysterious field " in connection with the lettuce garden of the god Min . In addition, Amenti appears as “the producer of the corpses he satisfies in the West”. In the New Kingdom he was under the personal protection of Re and appeared as the patron god of Osiris and the deceased with the title "God of the Hidden Arm".
Representations
Iconographically , Amenti was depicted as a reclining god from whom Horus crawled. In the Greco-Roman times , the representation as a sacred snake was added, which watched over the third Lower Egyptian Gau as a protective deity .
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . Vol. 1: 3 - y. Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 2-87723-644-7 , pp. 357-359.