Hetemite
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hetemit ḥtmjt extermination site / execution site |
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In Egyptian mythology, hetemite refers to the place of annihilation in the duat . It is the secret place in the hereafter, where enemies of the gods or the dead are judged or destroyed. Especially in connection with the ancient Egyptian judgment of the dead with regard to the Book of the Dead 125 , the dead who did not successfully make the negative confession of sin experience the second death . A transfer of the deceased's Ba-soul to Sechet-iaru was impossible.
literature
- Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800-950 BC) . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 614.
- Erik Hornung : The hidden space of the underworld in Egyptian literature . In: Antonio Loprieno : Man and Space from Antiquity to the Present . Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-77380-3 , pp. 23-38.