Dunanui
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Dunanui Dwn ˁnwj Who spreads his wings |
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Dunanui is an ancient Egyptian deity and at the same time main god in the 18th Upper Egyptian Falkengau . In the Middle Kingdom , Dunanui embodied the "back of the deceased's head". In the pyramid texts he was considered the "God of the East".
From the New Kingdom he appeared together with Seth , Horus and Thoth in the second scene of the mouth opening ritual in conjunction with Iunmutef , who performed the ritual cleansing of the deceased. Dunanui is god of the 27th lunar day at the latest from Greco-Roman times . The king ( Pharaoh ) is now considered to be the image of Geb and Dunanui.
In the New Kingdom , Dunanui is iconographically represented as a standing deity. In the late period , the depiction also takes place as a standing deity, but with an unclear head, who holds a snake in each hand and stands on a turtle and a crocodile . In Greco-Roman times, Dunanui appears as a falcon standing on a pedestal with outstretched wings.
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG , Vol. 7 . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1152-2 , pp. 525-526.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Assmann : Death and Beyond in Ancient Egypt . Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49707-1 , p. 164.