User:Immanuelle/First hour of the night (Ancient Egypt)

Erste Nachtstunde in hieroglyphs
Wenut-tepit-gereh Wnwt-tpj.t-grḥ Erste Stunde der Nacht
Uschmet-haut-cheftiu-es Wšmt-ḥ3wt-ḫftjw=s Die die Stirnen der Feinde zerschmettert
Abenddämmerung als erste Nachtstunde

In ancient Egypt, the first hour of the night referred to twilight, which began at the end of sunset . Mythologically, since the Middle Kingdom, the first hour of the night was under the patronage of Isis as the goddess of light and darkness .

The first hour of the night symbolized in particular the time of the Acronychic Decan sunsets as the hour of death of the Baktiu and thus as the hour of birth of the Chatiu demons . Since the Middle Kingdom, the first hour of the night was of particular importance as a time measurement with regard to the acronychal decan culmination on the Diagonal Star Clocks .

The inscriptions of the Naos of the Decades show that the astrological effectiveness of the respective decan constellation of a decade ended with the Acronychic setting in the first hour of the night.

See also

• Amduat
• Hour deities

literature

• Christian Leitz : Ancient Egyptian star clocks . Peeters, Leuven 1995, ISBN 9-0683-1669-9
• 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

Weblinks

• Amduat: 1. Night hour

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