Twelfth Night Hour (Ancient Egypt)

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Twelfth night hour in hieroglyphics
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Dawn was the twelfth hour of the night

In ancient Egypt, the twelfth hour of the night at dawn marked on the one hand the last hour of the night and on the other hand the last hour of the ancient Egyptian day . It was ended by the sunrise , which marked the first hour of the day in the ancient Egyptian calendar .

Mythologically , the twelfth hour of the night since the Middle Kingdom has been under the patronage of Isis and Sopdet , goddesses of light and darkness . The twelfth hour of the night symbolized in particular the time of the heliacal dean's rises when the Baktiu was born :

“Coming out of the duat , settling down in the morning barge. Drive on the Nun at the hour of Re. Transform into Chepri and rise to the horizon. Entering the mouth, coming out of the vulva . Shine in the doorway of the horizon to the hour that looks to the perfection of its master in order to create the necessities of life for the people, the cattle and all the worms that Re created. "

- Book of the night

In the twelfth hour of the night and thus the last hour of the old year, on the fifth day of Heriu-renpet , the heliacal rising of Sirius , star of the goddess Sopdet, also took place. With the sunrise shortly thereafter, the New Year celebration of the Sopdet festival followed on the first day of the year.

Since the late period , the goddess Nebet-seschep had taken over the functions of Isis and Sopdet as mistress of light . The inscriptions of the Naos of the Decades show that the astrological effectiveness of the respective dean star image of a decade begins with the heliacal culmination in the twelfth hour of the night.

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