Schut (Egyptian mythology)
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Schut Šwt shadow |
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In the presentation of the ancient Egyptians was Schut , or the shadow of a man the equivalent to its spirit and thus a part of his being. After death, it could temporarily detach itself from the body and walk around freely.
In the graves of the New Kingdom you can see how the shadow, accompanied by the soul bird Ba , leaves the grave (see: sand grave , mastaba , pyramid and rock grave ). In the Egyptian Book of the Dead it says: “You demons, who lock Osiris in the dungeon , may you fall destroyed into the darkness! My shadow be not delivered to you! May my soul not be given to you as a prisoner! Let a way be opened for my shadow, for my soul, so that on the day of judgment in the hereafter the gods , the great ones, may see them in his shrine . "
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Shadows . In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History (3rd edition) . Nikol, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-937872-08-7 , pp. 675-676.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Hannig: Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800-950 BC) . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 876.