Twelfth Hour of the Day (Ancient Egypt)
| Twelfth hour of the day in hieroglyphics | |||||||
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Hapu-seret Ḥ3pw-srt Who hides the shiny |
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The twelfth hour of the day (also twelfth hour of the day, “setting of the Re in the west country” ) referred to in ancient Egypt as the twelfth hour of the day, the “hour of sunset ”, which ended with the beginning of dusk ( first hour of the night ).
The times of day were represented by the goddesses of the hours in ancient Egypt . The twelfth hour of the day was called "The one who hides the shiny (Re)" and appears in the " Book of the Day " with the name " Fall of this God (Re) in the West ". The explanations regarding the Amduat indicate that Re is at the end of the twelfth hour of the day with the beginning of the sinking below the horizon in the Qenqenet region directly in front of the “gateway to the Duat ”.
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz : Ancient Egyptian star clocks . Peeters, Leuven 1995, ISBN 9-0683-1669-9 .
- Jürgen Osing: hieratic papyri from Tebtunis I . Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 1998, ISBN 8-7728-9280-3 .
- Alexandra von Lieven : Floor plan of the course of the stars - the so-called groove book . The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (among others), Copenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-635-0406-5 .