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Schu Šw |
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Tjau Ṯ3w The wind / The (breath) air |
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Neheh NHH The Eternity (The time in which Re does not dwell in the Duat) |
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Shu is a deity from Egyptian mythology . His name may mean "Void" or "The Ascending". He is both god of air and god of sunlight. Schu's nickname is "life".
meaning
In the ancient Egyptians , this god was ruler of the air, brother consort of Tefnut and father of Nut - goddess of heaven - and Geb - god of earth. In animal form he was also symbolized as a lion - or, when depicted in human form, with an ostrich feather on his head.
The Egyptian worldview at the time of the Pharaohs viewed the world as surrounded on all sides with water. Schu's task was to create a space above the earth that would make life possible. In old pictures he is shown leaning on Geb with his hands and feet from above and pushing the celestial ocean upwards with his back.
Under King Akhenaten , the god Shu was part of the so-called "first instructive name" of the god Aton , to whom Akhenaten had given a royal-like title written in two cartouches in the first years of reign . While the god Re-Harachte is mentioned in the first cartouche of Aton , in the second it is the god Shu in his meaning as god of air and sunlight to define Aton: “In his name as Shu, the one in the solar disk (Aton) is. ”From the ninth year of the reign, the teaching name of Aton was changed and Schu is no longer mentioned there.
In Lower Nubia he appears in connection with the god Arensnuphis in Ptolemaic - Roman times .
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd, unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , pp. 685-689 → Schu.
- Adolf Erman : The Egyptian religion. Reimer, Berlin 1909.
- Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto , Rosemarie Drenkhahn : Small Lexicon of Egyptology. 4th revised edition, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04027-0 , pp. 269f. → Schu .
- Richard H. Wilkinson : The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Belief, power, mythology. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1819-6 , pp. 129-130.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard H. Wilkinson: The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Belief, power, mythology. Stuttgart 2003, p. 129.