Kenmet (bird)
| Kenmet in hieroglyphics | ||||||
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Kenmet Knmt The Kenmet bird |
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As a Kenmet bird, Kenmet is a god of the dead documented in the Old Kingdom . Most of the little information comes from the pyramid texts .
Kenmet is another manifestation of the deceased as ritually purified . This state is achieved through solving the bad deeds . Before the deceased turns into a Kenmet bird, however, he represents a danger to the deceased who have already turned into a Kenmet bird, since the deceased consumes the food presented by the cleaned Kenmet bird in his state before the solution.
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1146-8 , p. 289.