Nenet (Egyptian mythology)
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Nenet Nnt The Opposite Sky / The Sky |
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In Egyptian mythology, the sky and mother goddess Nenet embodies the morning sky, which was newly born in the twelfth hour of the night shortly before sunrise . In the Amduat , Nenet appears as the third of four deities also during the twelfth hour of the night.
presentation
They were portrayed in human or animal form, in the New Kingdom either as a mummy with a falcon's head or as a goddess with a sign of trepidation and a what scepter .
meaning
Since the Pyramid Texts, Nenet has been associated with the king's ascension to heaven . In the New Kingdom the deceased descends to her. During the Greco-Roman period , Nenet acted as the mother of the sun god . She unites the bones of the deceased in her name in preparation for the birth of the sun god. Nenet is the sky from which the solar disk rises.
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG , Vol. 4. Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1149-2 , pp. 246-247.