Amset

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Amset in hieroglyphics
in the old kingdom
i m s ti

Imseti
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since the Middle Kingdom
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or
with  determinative
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or
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with  determinative
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Amset, (also Imsti , Imset or Imseti ) was one of the four sons of Horus and canopic gods who protected the mummified entrails. His parents are the god "Horus the Elder" ( Haroeris ) and the goddess Isis .

presentation

In contrast to his siblings, he always appears human, even female until the Middle Kingdom .

meaning

As the patron god of the canopic jars, he and the three other Horus sons Hapi , Duamutef and Kebechsenuef protected the mummified entrails. The protection of the liver was under his control.

The pyramid texts already name Amset as the patron god of the dead and their helper in the ascent to heaven. Amset is called via the inscriptions on the canopic jugs and the associated canopic boxes. In the Osiris cycle , Amset, like the other sons of Horus, is "one of the hour watch on the corpse of Osiris". He is the patron god of the first hour of the day and the first hour of night, of whom it is said at both times: "Amset comes to see you, he throws down the enemy on your right side." According to Egyptian mythology , Horus made him like his Siblings designated as guardians of the cardinal points and sent south as coronation messengers. Amset is also star god. His patron goddess is Isis .

See also

List of Egyptian gods

literature

  • Mary Barnett: Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt. Gondrom, Bindlach 1998, ISBN 3-8112-1646-5 .
  • Hans Bonnet : Amset. in: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 . P. 26.
  • Rolf Felde: Egyptian deities . 2nd expanded and improved edition, R. Felde Eigenverlag, Wiesbaden 1995,
  • Lucia Gahlin: Egypt. Gods, myths, religions. Edition XXL, Reichelsheim 2001, ISBN 389736-312-7 .
  • Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto : Small Lexicon of Egyptology. Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04027-0 .
  • Veronica Ions: The Great Religions of the World - Gods, Myths and Legends. Book and World, 1988.
  • Manfred Lurker : Lexicon of the gods and symbols of the ancient Egyptians. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna1 998, ISBN 3-502-16430-4 .

Web links

Commons : Amset  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Felde: Egyptian gods. Wiesbaden 1995, p. 3.
  2. ^ Günther Roeder : Documents on the religion of ancient Egypt. Diederichs, Jena 1923, pp. 34, 39.