The assignment of the constellation "Mesechtiu" to the desert god Seth can only have taken place from the Old Kingdom at the earliest , since the mythological role ascribed to him was previously not given astronomically . It is noteworthy that the constellation of Seth was the only constellation in the sky that did not perish in the history of the ancient Egyptian dynasty . During the late period , the constellation was already considered the constellation of Osiris , which, as a heavenly animal, was also equated with the "big bear / big chariot".
In the version PC1 of the Nutbuch , which dates from the Greco-Roman period , the sun god Re is described after his rise . Seth, who was identified with the constellation well into the New Kingdom , no longer appears in this context. Rather, the term "Chepesch (leg)" probably refers to the sky goddess Nut , whose leg remains as a connection between heaven and earth after the ascent of Re - in its appearance as a scarab . In the original passage, which dates from the time of Seti I , the term "Chepesch" is not mentioned:
13 He (Re) goes to heaven, that is, the shape of the scarab ... [...] ... 14 This is how he is created. This is the first time. A
Schenkel (Chepesch) is what remains. It arose in the manner of [...] arising from the beginning on earth at the first time.
Alexandra von Lieven : Floor plan of the course of the stars - the so-called groove book. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (among others), Copenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-635-0406-5 .
Individual evidence
^ Rainer Hannig: Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German . Pp. 386 and 640.
↑ Alexandra von Lieven: Floor plan of the course of the stars - The so-called groove book . P. 131.
