Anedjti
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Anedjti / Andjeti ˁnḏtj The god of Busiris |
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Anedjti (also Andjeti ) is an ancient Egyptian deity that is documented in the pyramid texts as early as the Old Kingdom .
supporting documents
In the pyramid texts it says: “The deceased has his staff before the ax like Anedjti”, “ Horus keeps the deceased alive in the name of the deceased (Anedjti)” and he is the head of the eastern district . According to Kurt Sethe's theory, he is a deified king from early Egyptian times .
He was mainly worshiped in the ninth Lower Egyptian district and its capital Busiris (Djedu). Presumably he is represented by the logogram of the ninth Lower Egyptian district, on which he appears with a crook and scourge . However, he soon merged with Osiris , who presumably took over the crook and scourge as ruler's insignia. The conical crown Anedjtis , which tapers upwards and is decorated with two feathers, can also be found in Osiris as the Atef crown . Osiris is also referred to in later texts as "Lord of Busiris".
In the Middle Kingdom , Anedjti appeared according to a coffin text in the Nebet-taui district of the Sechet-hetpu sacrificial area as "Osiris who flooded the basins". In Greco-Roman times , Anedjti was also compared to Osiris in the hour watch of the tenth hour.
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. De Gruyter, Berlin 2000; License edition: Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 38.
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . Vol. 2 (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. [OLA] Vol. 111). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1147-6 , pp. 175-176.
- Sandra Sandri: Har-Pa-Chered (Harpokrates). The genesis of an Egyptian child of gods (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Vol. 151). Peeters, Leuven et al. 2006, ISBN 90-429-1761-X (At the same time: Mainz, University, dissertation, 2004).
Individual evidence
- ^ Pyramid text 220c .
- ↑ pyramid text 614a .
- ↑ pyramid text 1833d.
- ↑ Coffin Texts (= sarcophagus texts) CT V.