Chentechtai
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Chentechtai is the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian deity of the jurisdiction Chenti-Cheti.
Representations
He was initially depicted in the shape of a crocodile, in the Middle Kingdom as a falcon-head with a double feather crown and a sun disk on his head. Since the New Kingdom he has been depicted with a falcon-headed double crown.
In the Greco-Roman times , other iconographic variants were added: as a god enthroned with a sun disk on his head and as a falcon with the Atef crown .
Mythological connections
In the Sothis calendar , the third month of the Schemu period was initially named after him as Chenti-chet . In the New Kingdom he was considered the god of the month Payni since the 19th dynasty , which meant a shift to the second month of the Schemu period.
He was the local god of the city of Kem-wer in the tenth Lower Egyptian district in the Nile Delta . The king ( Pharaoh ) appeared mythologically as the “protector of Chentechtai”, who in return therefore “loved the king”. In the limb ordinance, the heart of a cat was considered the heart of the Chentechtai. He also acted as the helmsman of Horus and Isis . The descendants of Chentechtai "carry the naos of Hathor together with the children of Horus in the eastern staircase of the temple of Edfu ".
In the Greco-Roman times, Chentechtai was given the heart of Seth in his capacity as the crocodile's messenger . Correspondingly, on 23 Achet IV, the “Festival of the Found Heart of Osiris ” took place, which “is in the hand of a crocodile named Chenti-cheti”.
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Chentechtai , in: Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , pp. 131-133.
- Rolf Krauss : Sothis and moon dates. Studies on the astronomical and technical chronology of ancient Egypt. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-8067-8086-X .
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of Egyptian gods and names of gods , Volume 5: Ḥ - ḫ (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. [OLA] 114). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1150-6 , p. 849.
- Richard Anthony Parker : The calendars of ancient Egypt. Chicago Press, Chicago 1950.
- Siegfried Schott: Ancient Egyptian festival dates. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1950.