Hor-wepesch-taui

Hor-wepesch-taui in hieroglyphics
Old empire
New kingdom	Hor-wepesch-taui Ḥr-wpš-t3wj Who illuminates the heavens / both countries
	Seba-resit-pet Sb3-rsjt-pt The southern star of the sky
	Seba-schemsu-en-pet Sb3-šmsw-n-pt The star as a follower of heaven
The planet Jupiter as Hor-wepesch-taui

Hor-wepesch-taui (also Hor-tasch-taui ) is the ancient Egyptian name of a sky deity. In ancient Egyptian mythology and astronomy , Hor-wepesch-taui referred to the planet Jupiter .

background

In two documents, Hor-wepesch-taui is associated with the sun god Re . However, this assignment should be regarded as incorrect, since Re acts as the deity of the planet Mars . In the sky representations of the Osireion , the template containing the name of the god Jupiter has also been destroyed. In the pyramid  text of 1455, Jupiter is documented as the illuminator of heaven as early as the Old Kingdom :

“I (the King) am the star that lights up the sky. I ascend to God so that I am protected, for heaven and earth will not be without me forever. "

- Pyramid text 1455

Although the name Hor-wepesch-taui seems to refer to Horus , an identification of Horus as the deity of Jupiter is considered to be excluded. Due to the mythological texts, Horus could be equated as Hor-ka-pet with the planet Saturn . Osiris can possibly be assigned to Jupiter.

See also

• List of Egyptian gods

literature

• Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG , vol. 6 . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1151-4 , pp. 241-242.
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pyramid Text 362b .
2. ↑ Alexandra von Lieven: Plan of the course of the stars . P. 127.