Egyptian Words for Midterm

innundation August-November; Floods the land not only with water, but rich soil; too much flooding=destruction; too little=famine

two lions

the book that explains the duat (the netherworld) hour by hour

jackal-headed god of cemeteries and embalming; form is that of a crouching jackal, or human form with jackal head; associated with the West (land of the dead) and mummification, therefore also associated with the idea of rebirth in the Afterlife; the black color of his coat suggests fertility to the Egyptian mind because it is the color of the Nile silt which produced rich harvests; leadership over those buried in the cemeteries of Egypt

assigns the entire country to Horus after the struggle between Horus and Seth for the kingship

aka Divine Adoratrice (duat netjer) and Hand of God; began early 18th dynasty, very powerful, had to remain cellibate, no marriage; considered a consort of the god; after Hatshepsut the office gets a bad rap, but it emerges again in the Late Period, just as influential; she owned land = power and influence in the cult; only royal women could take office, one at a time

arch enemy of creation; killed with magic and knives Isis and the eldest magician stand at the prow of the bark

one of the traditional enemies of Egypt

creator god; Atum’s eye Lecture on cosmogony slide 63

primeval deity and supreme god of the Egyptian pantheon; develops into transcendent creator god from whom all other gods emanate; breathes life into all living creatures; depicted anthropomorphically, often enthroned like a pharaoh; his crown symbolizes a sky-god, consisting of a modius surmounted by two high plumes; name seems to be connected with the word meaning “to conceal” and it’s indicative of the Egyptians’ own ideas on the god’s nature to interpret it as the “hidden one”

visible manifestation/embodiment of the deity and its hidden power in the sensible realm of divine action; the wind is the ba of shu (air); rain ba of Heh (liquid space); night, ba of Kuk (darkness); water, ba of Nun (primeval ocean); ram of Mendes, ba of Osiris; crocodiles, ba of Sobek

Carrying chair for the gods

used for processional bark along dromos

occurs around May; from karnak to Deir el-Bahari and along the mortuary temples; Amun visits Hathor and the deceased kings; lay people visit their deceased realtives

stone associated with Heliopolis and is worshipped as a first primeval hill