Wadjedj
| Wadjedj in hieroglyphics | ||||||
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| Late period |
Wadjedj W3ḏḏ The one who decides |
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| Greek |
Agathodaimon (Ἀγαθοδαίμων) The good spirit |
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Wadjedj has been documented as an ancient Egyptian protective deity since the late period .
Ancient Egyptian mythology
Mostly Wadjedj appears as a manifestation of the god of fate Shai or the deity Aha-nefer , which was attested to in the Old Kingdom . Iconographically , Wadjedj is depicted as a snake-headed with a sacrificial tray or as an erect cobra .
In the first book of the Aegyptiaca by Manetho , the Greek equivalent Agathodaimon is identified with the ancient Egyptian god Schu , who spanned the vital space over the earth. In old pictures you can see how he is leaning on Geb with his hands and feet from above and pushing the celestial ocean upwards with his back.
Book of Sothis
In the Book of Sothis , Agathodaimon is listed as the third ruler after Hephaestus and Helios in the first divine dynasty without proof of descent . Kronos followed him ; also without any relational reference. In the “Ecloga Chronograpica” Georgios Synkellos refers to the “Book of Sothis” that Manetho is said to have written for Ptolemy Philadelphos . In the meantime, however, the “Book of Sothis” has been identified as a forgery written by unknown Jewish and Christian authors. Synkellos comments on Agathodaimon: " Son of the second Hermes, father of Tat ". The ancient Egyptian god Thoth is named by Synkellos as the first Hermes , whose " holy writings were translated into the books of Agathodaimon after the flood ".
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG, Vol. 2: ʿ - b (series of publications: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 111) . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1147-6 , p. 266.
- Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John M. Wickersham: Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated. Native traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2000, ISBN 0-472-08687-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham: Berossos and Manetho. P. 176.
- ↑ GRS Mead: Thrice-Greatest Hermes. London 1906; and Colpenhave: Hermetica. Cambridge 1992; In both of them, Agathodaimon appears as the father of Thoth.
- ↑ Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham: Berossos and Manetho. P. 174.