Qenqenet

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Qenqenet in hieroglyphics
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Qenqenet
(Qen qenet)
Qn qn.t

In Egyptian mythology and astronomy, Qenqenet refers to the region of the sky just above the horizon and, in contrast to Mesqet , specifically refers to the entrance area into the Duat .

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Qenqenet Zone: Sunset over the horizon

The Qenqenet is the place where Re , Horus and the Dean stars are at the moment of sunset or shortly before their death, before they completely sink below the horizon. The Qenqenet is therefore mythologically “the place before rebirth ”.

The locality of the Qenqenet was long disputed among the Egyptologists , as this area is documented in many texts as "area in the sky and in the duat". The Qenqenet already plays an important role in the pyramid texts . For example, Kurt Sethe , Arielle Kozloff, and Ronald Wells assumed that it could be the Milky Way . After further investigations into other texts, this proposal could no longer be shortlisted, since the other documents clearly referred to a “region of passage of the sky and the stars ”.

After extensive work-up by Harco Willems , Rolf Krauss and Arno Egberts , the area was limited to the locations on the horizon . With the results of the investigations of the papyrus pBM 47.218.50 and the related topic of the Mesqet sanctuaries, it quickly became clear that the newer assumptions coincide with the mention in the Brooklyn Payprus, which explicitly only mentions the cardinal points east and west. Finally, the revision of the grooved book confirmed the exact allocation to the areas of the Duat's entrance gates , which are located just above the horizon.

In the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead lyrics , the region is described in more detail: "Go Re under the Qenqenet, he can do everything possible there, and in such a manner as will be traded on the flames island ," the directly related to the winding Duat watercourse Merencha stands and includes the areas of Sechet-iaru :

“ Horus , the falcon with a length of 1,000  cubits , rises and falls in the Qenqenet, his birth place, his waterways. Oh Qenqenet, I came into you. I saw my father, I recognized my mother. When I got up early, I caught fish ... I know the name of this God, the Lord of Holiness. When he harvests (in Sechet-iaru ), I will become the plow and will also reap. "

- Book of the Dead 110

See also

literature

  • Rolf Krauss : Astronomical Concepts and Concepts of the Beyond in the Pyramid Texts. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03979-5 .
  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs, and paintings. Volume 1: The Theban Necropolis; Private tombs. Griffith Institute, Oxfort 1994.
  • Alexandra von Lieven : Floor plan of the course of the stars - the so-called groove book. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (inter alia), Copenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-635-0406-5 , pp. 136-137.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Sethe: The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts. After the paper prints and photographs of the Berlin Museum. 1, text, 1st half, Spruch 1-468 (Pyr. 1-905). Olms, Hildesheim 2001 (reprint from 1908), ISBN 3-487-02593-0 , p. 315.
  2. ↑ Arielle Kozloff and a .: Egypt's dazzling sun: Amenhotep III and his world. Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, Cleveland 1992, ISBN 0-940717-16-6 , pp. 336-337.
  3. ^ Ronald Wells: The Mythology of Nut and the Birth of Ra. In: Studies on ancient Egyptian culture. Volume 19, 1992, pp. 305-321.
  4. ↑ Harco Willems: The coffin of Heqata (Cairo JdE 36418): A case study of Egyptian funerary culture of the Early Middle Kingdom. Peeters, Leuven 1996, ISBN 90-6831-769-5 , pp. 262-270.
  5. ↑ Rolf Krauss: Astronomical Concepts and Concepts of the Beyond in the Pyramid Texts. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03979-5 , pp. 254-255.
  6. ↑ Arno Egberts: In quest of meaning: A study of the ancient Egyptian rites of consecrating the meret chests and driving the calves. Nederlands Institut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 1995, ISBN 90-6258-208-7 , pp. 292-293.
  7. ^ Jean-Claude Goyon: Confirmation du pouvoir royal au nouvel an. [Brooklyn Museum 47.218.50]. Planches (= Bibliothèque d'Étude. [BdE] Volume 52). Institut Francais d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO), Cairo 1972, pp. 93-94.