Chronocrat

Chronocrat ( ancient Greek χρόνος chronos "time" and κράτος kratos "rule, violence, power") is today the name for the ancient Egyptian title of a divine time administrator. Each day of the Egyptian calendar was assigned a specific deity as the administrator of the day. The mention of chronocrats is related to the acronychic rises and nocturnal culminations of the dean's stars . In addition, the Chronocrats also took on the role of protective deities for the deceased.

See also

• Ancient Egyptian official and function titles
• Chronos

literature

• Friedrich Karl Ginzel : Handbook of mathematical and technical chronology, Vol. 1 - Time calculation of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Mohammedans, Persians, Indians, Southeast Asians, Chinese, Japanese and Central Americans - , German book export and import, Leipzig 1958 (reprinted Leipzig 1906 )
• 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