Kherty

Kherty in hieroglyphs
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Kherty
Ḫr.tj
The lower one
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Kherty
Ḫr.tj
The lower one

Kherty is an ancient Egyptian deity. Despite being archaeologically attested since the early 2nd Dynasty, his original mythological role during this era is unclear. Kherty was an Egyptian god of the Duat.[2][3] The earliest mythological descriptions of Kherty's role do not appear until the 6th Dynasty in the Pyramid Texts.[2]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference CLG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b John Gwyn Griffiths: The Origins of Osiris and His Cult (= Studies in the history of religions, vol. 40). BRILL, Leiden 1980, ISBN 9004060960, p. 6, 173 & 174.
  3. ^ Georg Meurer: Die Feinde des Königs in den Pyramidentexten (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis, vol. 189). Saint-Paul, 2002, ISBN 3525530463, pp. 73, 74 & 76.