Netjer-eighty
| Netjer-Achti in hieroglyphics | |||||
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| Early days |
Netjer-Achti (Netjer Achti) Nṯr-3ḫtj Horizon God |
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| Old empire |
Achti 3ḫtj |
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Netjer- Achti (often just Akhti ) was a sun and dead god of ancient Egypt .
supporting documents
Achti appeared for the first time under King ( Pharaoh ) Hetepsechemui at the beginning of the 2nd dynasty and was also venerated and depicted under his direct successors Nebre and Ninetjer (see Redjit ). Wolfgang Helck sees in Netjer-Achti an early form of the sun god Re and a dynasty - ancestor of Hetepsechemui.
Otherwise this god is only very rarely attested, he only appears a few times in the Old Kingdom and in the later period within the official title of Hem (a priestly title ): Hem-Akhti (" Servant of God / Prophet of Akhti"). One such was, for example, the high official Chufuseneb .
presentation
It has been represented by the image of a forest Rapp ( Geronticus Eremitae ), which in the Egyptian mythology for the so-called Ach was -Vogel. The bird representation was accompanied by the hieroglyphs Aa1 and X1 ( Gardiner list ).
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto, Wolfhart Westendorf: Lexicon of Egyptology. Volume 2. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3447018763 , p. 430.
- Peter Kaplony : Stone vessels with inscriptions from the early days and the Old Kingdom (= Monumenta aegyptiaca. Vol. 1). Fondation égyptologique Reine Elisabeth, Brussels 1968, p. 68.
- Hermann Ranke : The Egyptian personal names. Volume 1. Augustin, Glückstadt 1935, p. 268, No. 10 ( online as PDF ).