First Night Hour (Ancient Egypt)

First night hour in hieroglyphics
Wenut-tepit -gereh Wnwt-tpj.t-grḥ First hour of the night
Ushmet-haut-cheftiu-es Wšmt-ḥ3wt-ḫftjw = s Who shatters the foreheads of the enemy
Dusk as the first hour of the night

The first hour of the night called in ancient Egypt as the first hour of the night the evening twilight , with the end of the sunset began. Mythologically , the first hour of the night since the Middle Kingdom was under the patronage of Isis as the goddess of light and darkness .

The first hour of the night symbolized in particular the time of the acronychic dean's downfall as the hour of death of the Baktiu and associated with that as the birth of the Chatiu demons . Since the Middle Kingdom , the first nocturnal hour as time measurement regarding the acronychic dean culmination on the diagonal star clocks has been of particular importance.

From the inscriptions of the Naos of the Decades, it emerges that the astrological effectiveness of the respective dean star image of a decade ended with the acronymic downfall in the first hour of the night.

See also

• Amduat
• Hour deities

literature

• Christian Leitz : Ancient Egyptian star clocks . Peeters, Leuven 1995, ISBN 9-0683-1669-9
• 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

Web links

• Amduat: 1st night hour