Nenet

This article deals with a term from Egyptian mythology. For the people of Siberia see Nenets .

Nenet in hieroglyphics
nenet nnt Against Sky
niut / naut njwt opposite sky, lower sky

Nenet (also niut, naut ) in Egyptian mythology and astronomy denotes the place of sunrise or the newly emerging sky of shine . The associated heavenly deity Nenet has been documented since the Old Kingdom .

background

Originally, this designation referred to the distinction in the Duat between the upper roof of the heavenly vault (temple roof ) and the lower heaven , the residence of the justified ancestral spirits and the Chatiu demons in the Duat . The comparison of the nenet sky was mythologically applied to the union of Hathor with Re : "So that she may unite with the solar disk of her father Re in the nenet sky, on the great festival of New Year". In particular, it was equated with the temple roof as the birthplace of heaven and the place of union between Hathor and Re.

The connection to the sun god Re is also emphasized in the sacrificial proposition of the Horsemataui: “Re shines. Growing up from the now to the nenet heaven ”. In the temple of Edfu , an inscription refers to Behdeti as “Bringer of light” in the sanctuary : “He who rises from the Nun, who raises the shine to the nenet heaven”.

Feast of the Sun's Eye

In Egyptian mythology , the wearers of the eye of Re are also referred to as the daughter of Re . Best-known daughters of Re are Hathor, Sopdet , Sachmet , Bastet , Tefnut and Isis . In the further course especially Hathor experienced great veneration as the bearer of the Eye of Re. In the most important temples of Egypt the priests carried their gold statue on the roof on the 17th of Peret I so that she could look up to Re. Archaeologists were able to prove numerous roof chapels , similar to the chapel of the Hathor festival in Dendera . So far, no reliable information is available about the exact course of the festival.

In the Greco-Roman times at the latest , the nenet sky as a place of sunrise or "lower sky" merged with the generic term Duat , which as a term used to refer to the afterlife included both the locations of sunrise and sunset.

See also

• Feast of the Sun's Eye

literature

• Maria-Theresia Derchain-Urtel: Epigraphic investigations on the Greco-Roman times in Egypt . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04173-0
• Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800-950 BC) . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , pp. 414-415.