Sched (Egyptian mythology)

Sched (in German: Savior ) is a god of Egyptian mythology .

function

Sched was a patron god in emergency situations for the ancient Egyptians who was mainly supposed to protect them from wild animals. It is first recorded after the end of the Amarna period . Many amulets with the image of Sched have been found, which have been awarded the protective powers of this god for the respective wearer.

Since the New Kingdom , the deity Hor-sched has also been documented as a form of union in Egyptian mythology , which is a subsidiary form of the god Horus and was endowed with youthful and childlike attributes in the Greco-Roman times .

literature

Heike Sternberg-El Hotabi: Investigations into the transmission history of the Horus steles: a contribution to the religious history of Egypt in the 1st millennium BC Chr. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04132-3 , p. 31ff. ( online ).

Individual evidence

^ Ian Shaw (Egyptologist) : The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2002, ISBN 0-19-280293-3 , p. 306.
↑ Friedrich Graf: The Egyptian Faith. Volume II: The Egyptian concept of the afterlife and gods in ancient Egypt. 1., new edition, Books on Demand (BoD), Norderstedt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-8081-3 , S 348. ( at Google Books ).

[1] Ian Shaw (Egyptologist) : The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2002, ISBN 0-19-280293-3 , p. 306.

[2] Friedrich Graf: The Egyptian Faith. Volume II: The Egyptian concept of the afterlife and gods in ancient Egypt. 1., new edition, Books on Demand (BoD), Norderstedt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-8081-3 , S 348. ( at Google Books ).