Weneg (Egyptian mythology)
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Weneg Wng The Weneg flower |
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Weneg Wng The Weneg flower |
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Weneg (also Uneg ) was a god of heaven and the dead of the ancient Egyptian religion . In his function as a “ cosmological guardian”, Weneg protects the earth and its inhabitants from the confinement of chaos .
supporting documents
The earliest mentions of Weneg as a deity found in the Pyramid Texts ( PT ) of Kings Teti II. , Pepi I , the Queen Neith and the king Merenre where he is, for example, testified as a god of death, and as late king son of Re is called . There they first asked for a safe passage in the sky barque des Rê for the deceased king and referred to Weneg:
" PT 363; Column 607c - d:
Rê comes, put the king over to the other side,
just as you translate your companion, the Weneg plant ,
which you love so much! "
In contrast, in PT 476 the king is equated directly with the god Weneg:
" PT 476; Column 952a - d:
You keeper of the way of the king, who is the great gate,
justify the king before the two great and mighty gods,
the king is after all the Weneg plant , the son of Rê,
who crosses the sky, who the Earth directs,
and who judges the gods. "
Otherwise the deity Weneg is hardly documented in the history of Egypt, he is only mentioned in the pyramid texts of the 6th dynasty , where he appears as a manifestation of the air god Schu . The name "Weneg" as such is otherwise only used for a controversial ruler of the 2nd dynasty : Weneg .
See also
literature
- Jochem Kahl : "Ra is my Lord": Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3-447-05540-5 . Pp. 4-14.
- Wolfgang Kosack : The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts. In a new German translation; completely edited and edited by Wolfgang Kosack. Christoph Brunner, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-9524018-1-1 .
- Georg Hart : The Routledge dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Godesses. Routledge, London 2005, ISBN 0-415-36116-8 , p. 162.
- Stephen Quirke : Ancient Egyptian Religions. British Museum Press, London 1992, ISBN 0-7141-0966-5 , p. 22.
- Adolf Erman : The Egyptian Religion. 1st edition, Reimer, Berlin 1905, p. 91.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG, Vol. 7 . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1152-2 , p. 418.
- ^ Georg Hart: The Routledge dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Godesses . P. 162.
- ^ Pyramid Texts PT 363, 607 and 476; 952c .
- ↑ a b Jochem Kahl: Ra is my Lord. Pp. 4-14.
- ↑ Pyramid Texts
- ↑ Pyramid Texts
- ↑ Adolf Erman: The Egyptian religion . P. 91