Tenem
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Tenem Tnm The wandering one |
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Tenem is an ancient Egyptian god of the dead who was associated with Sah ( Orion ), husband of Sopdet and father of Sopdu . The deceased had to come down to Tenem in the Middle Kingdom to see him. With his wife Tenemu he first formed a pair of gods in the eighth of Hermopolis . Later they were replaced by Amun and Amaunet , which symbolized the hidden .
Tenem is iconographically represented in the New Kingdom as a crouching, human-headed god; in Greco-Roman times as a jackal and with the head of a snake holding two knives. Since the New Kingdom Tenem is optionally available as the 16th, 17th or 19th associate judge documented in the Book of the Dead . In order to be able to get to Sechet-iaru , the deceased must make the negative creed before him: "I did not overhear anything and was not talkative."
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literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG, Vol. 1: A - i (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Vol. 110). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1146-8 , p. 432.
- Hartwig Altenmüller : Mindfulness . In: Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto, Wolfhart Westendorf: Lexicon of Egyptology. Volume 1: A - Harvest. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 978-3-447-01670-4 , pp. 56-57.
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history . Nikol, Hamburg / Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-937872-08-7 , pp. 5-6.
- Waltraud Guglielmi: Tenemu / Tenemit . In: Lexicon of Egyptology. Volume 6: Stele - Cypress. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 978-3-447-02663-5 , pp. 420-421.