User:Immanuelle/Twelfth hour of the day (Ancient Egypt)
| Twelfth hour of the day in hieroglyphs | |||||||
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Hapu-seret Ḥ3pw-srt That hides the shining one | |||||||
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In ancient Egypt, the 12th Hour of the day (also twelfth hour of the day, "setting of Re in the west" ) was the twelfth hour of the day and was the "hour of sunset ", which ended with the beginning of evening twilight ( First night hour ).
In ancient Egypt, the times of day were represented by the hour goddesses . The twelfth hour of the day was called “That which hides the shining one (Re)” and appears, among other places, in the “ Book of the Day ” with the title “ The setting of this god (Re) in the Westland ”. From the explanations regarding the Amduat, it can be seen that at the end of the twelfth hour of the day, when Re begins to sink below the horizon, he is in the region of the Qenqenet, immediately in front of the “gateway to the Duat ”.
See also
[change | change source]literature
[change | change source]- 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 : Outline of the course of the stars – The so-called Nutbook . The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (u. a.), Copenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-635-0406-5 .