Ha (Egyptian mythology)

Ha in hieroglyphics
Old empire	Ha Ḥ3 The (God) of the West

Ha is the name of an ancient Egyptian deity. He was the god of the western mountains and the desert and, along with Min, was worshiped as the god of fertility since the Old Kingdom .

He is in human form and depicted as a mummy and a falcon . In the first interim he became the patron god of the desert and was considered a companion of Sopdu and Dedun . In the Middle Kingdom , Ha as an enthroned mummy symbolically bears the hieroglyph of the foreign landon the head, from the New Kingdom also in other manifestations. Occasional pictures also show him with a knife and bow. He was the god of the seventh Lower Egyptian district . The Ha festival celebrated in his honor has been recorded for the 10th Achet I since the New Kingdom .

See also

• List of Egyptian gods

literature

• Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . Volume 5: Ḥ - ḫ (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Vol. 114). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1150-6 , pp. 10-11.
• Richard H. Wilkinson : The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Faith - Power - Mythology. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1819-6 , p. 106.