Wernes

Wernes is the area of the 2nd night hour in the Amduat underworld book . The sun god Re reached during his trip shortly after sunset in the waters of Werne to there in a different boat to upgrade.

Isis and Nephthys appear as dangerous snakes in Wernes . The private grave TT 91 ( 18th dynasty ) also contains the amduat as a grave decoration. In connection with the contents of the Book of the Dead, the deceased Amunuser exceptionally refrains from pulling the boat in the second hour of the night in order to avoid a threatening situation.

“Those in Wernes (?) Are, they come when he (Re) directs the journey to this area. (He) gives them instructions from his barge, and (he) calls to (them) when he berths ... These barges drive the very great ones around in Wernes ... The underworld gods say it when this one Great God enters the (gate) " all-devourer " when he has traveled the "waters of the Re" to Wernes: Oh appear. Big ba! "

- Middle and lower register, 2nd night hour in the Amduat

As another goddess in the Amduat, Ammit appears in the upper register, where she is depicted as a standing goddess with Uraeus on her head. The iconography as a hybrid being illustrated in the Book of the Dead in connection with Spruch 125 did not appear for the first time until after the Amarna period . In the Amduat, however, their original form of representation is not changed.

“It is these gods who let rise the words of those who are on earth. It is they who let the Bas get to sleep. What they have to do is take care of the deep night and make sacrifices in their hours. It is they who guard the day and bring the night until this great God has emerged from the primeval eclipse in order to linger in the gateway to the eastern horizon of heaven. "

- Upper register, 2nd night hour in the Amduat

literature

Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800-950 BC) . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 220.
Erik Hornung : The Hidden Space of the Underworld in Egyptian Literature . In: Antonio Loprieno : Man and Space from Antiquity to the Present . Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-5987-7380-3
Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG , Vol. 2 . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 9-0429-1147-6 , p. 114.
Christine Seeber: Judgment of the Dead In: Investigations into the representation of the judgment of the dead in ancient Egypt . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-4220-0828-4 , pp. 163-186.

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Second night hour of the amduat

Individual evidence

↑ The second night hour of the Amduat has been preserved in the following royal tombs: Thutmose I. , Thutmose III. , Amenhotep II. , Amenhotep III. , Seti I. , Ramses II. , Set II. , Ramses V , Ramses VI. and Ramses IX.
↑ Deities of the second hour of the night in the Amduat ; Six enthroned, mummy-shaped deities in the upper register function as judges of the dead who decide whether the Ba may enter the underworld. In the event of a punishment, there is a knife on the judge's lap. Isis acts as the "interrogating deity".

[1] The second night hour of the Amduat has been preserved in the following royal tombs: Thutmose I. , Thutmose III. , Amenhotep II. , Amenhotep III. , Seti I. , Ramses II. , Set II. , Ramses V , Ramses VI. and Ramses IX.

[2] Deities of the second hour of the night in the Amduat ; Six enthroned, mummy-shaped deities in the upper register function as judges of the dead who decide whether the Ba may enter the underworld. In the event of a punishment, there is a knife on the judge's lap. Isis acts as the "interrogating deity".