Keket

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Keket in hieroglyphics
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Keket
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The goddess of darkness

Keket , also Kauket , is an ancient Egyptian goddess who has been documented in the pyramid texts since the Old Kingdom . With her husband Kek she has been counted as the primordial goddess of the Hermopolis eighth since the New Kingdom . From the 21st to the 24th dynasty , Keket is known as the "Lady of the West".

iconography

In the Saïten period , Keket is represented as a serpent-headed goddess; later also holding two knives or a Chepresch crown in his hands. In the Greco-Roman times , other manifestations were added: As a snake-headed deity with a solar disk on his head. In addition, she is depicted as a human goddess with arms raised in praise or with the ankh symbol and a papyrus scepter in her hands. Keket can also be seen with a cat's head or as a baboon standing with arms raised on a sun boat .

See also

literature

  • Hartwig Altenmüller : Mindfulness . In: Lexicon of Egyptology . Vol. 1, Wiesbaden 1975, columns 56-57.
  • Hans Bonnet : Real Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History . 3rd edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-937872-08-7 , pp. 5-6.
  • Reinhard Grieshammer: Kek / Keket . In: Lexicon of Egyptology . Vol. 3, Wiesbaden 1980, column 380.
  • Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG . Vol. 1 (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. No. 110). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1146-8 , p. 298.