Kenmeti
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Kenmeti Knmtj The one belonging to darkness |
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Kenmeti (also Kenmut, Kenmet ) is documented for the first time as an ancient Egyptian deity and further manifestation of Kenmet in the coffin texts of the Middle Kingdom and the associated diagonal star clocks .
In the demotic language Kenmeti led the alternative name Awut ( sacred animals ).
background
Representations and functions
In the New Kingdom , Kenmeti is iconographically represented as a crouching god with a snake's head; in Greco-Roman times also as a standing mummy with a feather placed on his hippopotamus head . The mummy is holding a knife in her hands.
Kenmeti acted as one of 42 judges of the dead and represented the places of Kenmet . Archaeological investigations have so far been able to identify the Dachla oasis and the Heliopolis solar sanctuary as a place of Kenmet as possible regions . During the third interim period , Kenmeti revered the activities of Amun-Re in the context of his manifestations as Re-Harachte , Harachte , Chepri , Atum and Harmachis .
Mythological aspects
The King ( Pharaoh ) embodied as incarnation of the sun god Re divinity Kenmeti, which he simultaneously sacrifices offered up. Kenmeti was an additional epithet of the Kenmetiu temple deities from the 17th Upper Egyptian Anubis Gau . In addition, Kenmeti carried the titles, among other things: He who sits in the solar disk of Re when he is rebirth in the month of Mesori and the one who shines .
In the cult of the dead , Kenmeti was responsible for the gate of blasphemy , where the deceased had to assure him that he had never blasphemed in his earthly life. In the Book of Hours , Kenmeti was invoked as equating the Kenmet Temple in the tenth hour.
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.