Kemwer
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Kem-wer Km-wr The great black one (The great bitter lake) |
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Kemwer (also Kem-wer ) was the name of an ancient Egyptian god of the dead with a name reference to the bitter lakes or the Timsahsee as well as to the fortress of the same name at the exit of the Tjeku region . In addition, Kemwer was the name of the hill of ruins, Tell Atrib ( Greek Athribis ), northeast of Banha .
background
The deity of the dead Kemwer is already mentioned in the Old Kingdom in the pyramid texts as the embodiment of the deceased, whose equation was retained until the Saïten period .
In the Middle Kingdom , the deceased was mythologically referred to as the water ( mw ), the earth ( t3 ), the bitter lakes ( km-wr ) and the great bull ( k3-wr ) in connection with the dead goddess Kemwer .
See also
literature
- Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800-950 BC) . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , pp. 1196 and 1272.
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . (LGG), Vol. 6: ẖ-s. (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Vol. 115). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1151-4 , p. 286.
- Nobility Schlott-Schwab: The dimensions of Egypt according to ancient Egyptian texts . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-447-02186-1 , pp. 92-93.
- Pascal Vernus: Athribis: Textes et docum. relatifs à la geogr., aux cultes, et à l'hist. d'une ville du delta egyptien à l'époque pharaonique . Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, Le Caire 1978, p. 427.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coordinates: 30/28/14, E 31/11/17.
- ↑ Pyramid Texts, Proverbs 628b; 1630d. ( Kurt Sethe : The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts based on the paper prints and photographs of the Berlin Museum. Unchanged photomechanical reprint of the 1st edition, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1908–1922; Olms, Hildesheim 1960)