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Myth Home - Ancient Egypt Glossary Category: History and Culture > Ancient Egypt Glossary Date & country: 10/11/2010, UK Words: 89

Abydos
Ancient town in Upper Egypt, sacred to Osiris.

Andjet
Nineth none of Lower Egypt in the central Delta

Ankh-tawny
Life of the Two Lands is the name for Memphis, the ancient religious center.

Aroura
An area of land; roughly of two thirds of an acre

Asyut
Ancient town in middle Egypt

Atef:
tall white crown flanked with ostrich feathers and horns, worn especially by Osiris.

Bakhu
Eastern mountain where the sun rises.

Black Land
Fertile Nile Valley - see Red Lands.

Busiris
City in central Delta sacred to Osiris.

Butos
City in North Delta sacred to the serpent goddess Nadjet.

Bybastis
Cult city of Bastet in the eastern Delta.

Chemmis
The hidden place in the Delta where Isis hid from Seth and brough up Horus

Children of Impotence
Opprobrious epithet of evil spirits.

Conclaves
assemblies of gods One for Upper Egypt, and one for Lower Egypt.

Coptos
Town of Upper Egypt, center of the worship of Min.

Crocodilepolis
Cult center inthe Faiyam of the crocodile god Sobek

Cubit
20.6 inches (about 52.3 centimeters).

Day-bark
sky boat in which sun god crosses sky from East to West.

Dep
One of the two towns (Pe is the other) which united to form the Delta city of Buto, pre dynastic capital of Lower Egypt.

Dismembered-One
Osiris before Isis repaired him.

Djed-Pillar
cult object resembling a tree trunk with lopped-off horizontal branches; sacred to Osiris, Ptah and Sokar.

Double Lion
form of sun god as 2 lions back to back.

Edfu
Cult center for Horus in Upper Egypt.

Elephatine
Island at the first Cataract which is the south border of Egypt and the source of the Nile in Egypt. F

Faiyum
Inland lake and marsh area west of the Nile in Middle Egypt, Center of Worship of the crocodile god Sobk.

Fenkha
people of Syria

Five Gods
Gods of the five non calendar days at the end of the 360 day Egytian year. The names of the five days are

Flail
Whip like part of the royal insigna.

Foresmost of the Westerners
Epithet of Osiris

God's Father
Priestly rank

Great Cackler
Epithet of the creator god when in the form of a goose

Heliopolis
ancient center of the sun cult now apart of modern Cairo.

Heracleopolis
Relgious and political centerf on the west bank in Middle Egypt near Faiyam.

Hermopolis
Ancient religious center of Middle Egypt, associated with Thoth

Hogging-bean
Ancient religious center of Middle Egypt, associated with Thoth

Hordedief
Son of King Khufu (Cheops) of the 4th Dynasty and builder of the great pyramid

Igau
Another name of Anubis.

Imau
Cult place in the western Delta.

Imperishable Stars
circumpolar stars.

Inert One
dead Horus before ressurection. K

Kherpri
Scarab or dung beetle representing young sun

Kheraha
relgious center south of modern Cairo.

Lake of the Two Knives
Sacred water at Hermopoles where the sun god came into being

Letopolis
Religious center at Apex of Delta, sacred to Horus

Limp One
Dead Osiris M

Mansion of the Prince
Palace at Heliopolois where divine justice is dispensed.

Manu
Western mountain where the sun sets.

Master Craftsman
title of the High Priest of Ptah at Memphis.

Memphis
City opposite modern Cairo, first capital of Dynastic Egypt, and cult center of Ptah

Mendes
Relgious center in central Delta

Mounds
Fourteen mounds or regions of the Elysian fields.

Naref
Necropolis near Heraclopolis associated with Osiris myth

Nedit
Place near Abydos where Osiris was murdered.

Nedjefet
Place in the region of Asyut.

Nekhen
Ancient caspital of Upper Egypt, cult center of Horus.

Night-bark
Sun god's boat through the underworld.

Nome
One of the 42 adminstrative and relgious regions into which Egypt was divided (22 in Upper and 20 in Lower Egypt)

Nubia
Land just south of Egypt between first and second cataracts. O

Pe
With Dep- see Dep.

Per-Neser
National Shrine of Lower Egypt

Per-Wer
National shrine of Upper Egypt

Pillar-of-His-Mother
Her sole support; god of the Thinite nome; grade of funerary priest.

Punt
(also known as God's Land) source of aromatic resins for funery rites, likely in the area of modern Ethiopia and Eitriea

Red Crown
Distinctive royal crown of the kingdom of Lower Egypt.

Red Land
See Black Land

Rivals
Horus and Seth as they contend for control of Egypt after Osiris Rod 100 cubits (about 172 feet or 4.37 meters. Rosetjau Necropolis of Giza (another name of Memphis) extended to mean the other world in general. S

Sacred Eye
Eye of Horus, torn out by Seth, restored by Thoth, symbolizes good, and eye of sun god the sun's destructive power.

Sais
Ancient city in north central Delta, cult center of Neith

Sem-Priest
Funery priest, supervisor of burial rites

Sepa
Town in the Heliopolis area sacred to Anubis.

Shabti
Magical figurine, servant of the deceased which will do all the hard work on behalf of its master required of him in the other life.

Shetyt-shrine
Sanctuary of Sokar at Memphis.

Silent Land
Land of the Dead

Sistrum Player
MUscian priest of Hathor (Sistrum is an Egyptian rattle); son of Hathor

Stones of Rekhty
Place in the extreme north of Egypt

Supports of Shu
Columns of Air supporting Sky at 4 cardinal points. T

The Two Kites
Nephthys and Isis lamenting Osiris. L

Thinis, Thnite Nome
Religious center Osiris worshipers and district of which was the capital

Tjebu
Ancient town in 10th Upper Egyptain Nome

Tjenenent:-Shrine
Holiest of the shrines in Memphis.

Two Fledglings
HOrus Protector of His Father and Horus the Eyeless.

Unwearying Stars
stars which rise and set continuously, all year long

Uraeus
Upreared cobra on the royal crown, and is a symbol of the pharoahs.

Wenes
Ancient town in nineteenth Upper Egyptian nome on the west bank in Middle Egypt

Wennefer
Name of Osiris Wenu, Wenut Relgious center near Hermopolis

West
Where the sun sets; the land of the dead

Westerners
The dead.

White Crown
Crown of Upper Egypt.

N
Name of the deceased person whosoever it might be.