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Reshafim - Ancient mythology terms Category: History and Culture > Ancient mythology Date & country: 16/01/2011, IS Words: 358

Hamamat
Wadi connecting the Nile valley to the Red Sea near Thebes

Hapiru
Nomadic asiatics of the 2nd millennium BCE, often considered outlaws. Used to be wrongly identified with the Hebrews

Harakhte
God, see also Horus, Re

Harem (Arabic), Egyptian ipet
institution run by the pharaoh's first wife for the benefit of the pharaoh's wives and female relatives, not to be confounded with the muslim harem of later times

Haremhab
see Horemheb

Hathor
Goddess of sky, love, mirth, beauty and fertility

Hatshepsut
Female pharaoh, 18th dynasty

Hatti
Anatolian nation, in conflict with the Egyptians during the New Kingdom

Heb Sed (Hb-sd)
festival (Hb) celebrated after 30 years of rule or more frequently. Its precise purpose is unknown, but is supposed to have to do with the pharaoh's rejuvenation.

Hedjet
the white crown of Upper Egypt

Heka (HkA)
Magic

Heka-khase (HqA-xAsw.t )
see Hyksos

Hekat, Heket
see Heqat

Heliopolis, On
Main temple of the sun god Re

Hemaka
Royal sealbearer (chancellor) under Den (1st dynasty)

Henenu, Hannu, Henu
Steward and overseer of herds, 11th dynasty

Henku
Nomarch, late OK (Inscription)

Hephaestos, Hephaistos
The Greek equivalent of Ptah

Hepu
Vizier under Thutmose IV

Hepuseneb
First prophet of Amen under Hatshepsut

Heqa (HqA.t)
Crook, symbol of pharaonic authority

Her-ka-pet
The planet Saturn

Hermanubis, Anpu, Khenty-Imentiu
see Anubis

Heru
see Horus

Heru-deshret
The planet Mars

Her-wepes-tawy
The planet Jupiter

Heseb (Hsb)
Square measure: One quarter of a tA, divided into 2 sA

Hesire
Overseer over the royal scribes under Djoser (3rd dynasty), physician and dentist

Hierakonpolis (Greek), Nekhen
Ancient southern capital

Hin (hnw)
lit. jar, one tenth of a heqat, about half a litre

Hittites
People of Hatti

Horbaf
Son of Khufu (4th dynasty), vizier

Hordjedef, Djedefhor
Son of Khufu (4th dynasty)

Horemheb
New Kingdom general and pharaoh, 18th dynasty

Horus name
First of the pharaonic titles, often written in a serekh

Horus, Hor, Heru, Hru
Sun god, son of Isis and Osiris

Hotep Senusret (Kahun)
Middle Kingdom planned town

House of Life
Repositories for knowledge in temples

Hyksos
The Heqa-khasut, wrongly translated as Shepherd Kings, an Asiatic people, founded a kingdom in Northern Egypt, 15th and 16th dynasties

Hypostyle
(Greek hupostulos, under columns) Building with roof supported by pillars

Ikhernofret
Chancellor under Senusret III, (Stela)

Imhotep
High official under of Djoser (3rd dynasty), later deified.

Intef, Antef, Inyotef
Pharaohs of the 11th dynasty

IP
Intermediary Period

Ipet
see harem

Isfet
disorder, chaos, opposed to Maat

Isis, Auset, Aset, Ast
Goddess of fertility and nature, consort of Osiris. Identified with Demeter and Aphrodite

Judgment of the Dead
Decision by the gods on the afterlife of a person

Justified
maa-kheru, lit. True of voice, dead person judged favourably

Kadashman Enlil
King of Babylon, contemporary of Amenhotep III

Kahun, Lahun, Illahun (Arabic)
Middle Kingdom planned town near the site of Hotep Senusret

Kambyses
see Cambyses

Kamutef
Lit. 'Bull of his Mother'. Name of the ithyphallic, self-created Amen and Min

Kanofer
Architect under Khasekhemwy (2nd dynasty), speculatively Imhotep's father

Karnak, Al Karnak (Arabic)
modern village, occupying the northern half of pharaonic Thebes, Ipet isut, the site of many ancient temples

Kawab
Son of Khufu (4th dynasty)

Keftiu
described as a place in the midst of the Great Green, i.e. the Mediterranean, possibly Crete, sometimes identified with Cyprus or with the whole of the Aegean

Kenbet (qnb.t)
Judicial commission or court

Kezweden, Kizzuwadna
Hurrian vassal state of the Hittites in southern Anatolia

Khaemwaset
Son of Ramses II, high priest of Ptah

Khafre, Chafre, Chefren
Old Kingdom Pharaoh, 4th dynasty

Khamudi, Chamudi, Apepi II
Hyksos king

Kheker sign (Xkr)
architectural decoration

Khekheperre-sonbu
Priest (Admonitions)

Kheops
see Khufu

Khepresh, Kheperesh (xprS)
The blue crown

Khet (xt), khet-en-nu
Linear measure, 100 cubits, about 50 metres

Kheta
see Hatti

Kubna, Gepen
Egyptian name for Byblos

Kush, Kash
Nubian region above the second cataract

KV
Used by archaeologists together with a number to identify tombs in the Valley of the Kings

Labayu
Ruler of Shechem, contemporary of Akhenaten (cf. Amarna Letters)

Lector priest
Priest reading ritual texts

Lesonis
Greek for Egyptian mr-Sn, an elected official in charge of the economic management of a temple

Libu, Ribu
Libyans

LP
Late Period

Luxor (Arabic el Uksor)
modern village, occupying the southern half of ancient Thebes, Ipet resyt

Ma
see Meshwesh

Maat, Ma'at, Mayet (maA.t)
Goddess of Truth; the world order, justice, proper conduct.

Mafdet
Goddess, symbolizing judicial authority and the execution apparatus

Mammisi (Coptic)
lit. House of Birth, sanctuary attached to a temple; dedicated to the birth of the child deity of a triad

Mastaba (Arabic mastaba, bench)
Old Kingdom, underground tomb with above ground structure

Maziqda
38 hin, about 19 litres

Medjay
Nubian mercenaries since the First Intermediary Period, police under Ahmose I and his successors

Megiddo
Important Canaanite town, site of battle

Meh-ta (mH-tA)
Area measure, 100 cubits squared, ca.27 m², New Kingdom

Memphis (Greek), Mennefer, Mof
Old Kingdom capital of Egypt (near Cairo)

Men, Menes, Min
First pharaoh of the united kingdom according to Herodotus, identified as Hor-aha

Menkaure, Mykerinos
Old Kingdom Pharaoh, 4th dynasty

Menkheperreseneb
High priest of Amon at Karnak, 18th dynasty

Mentuhotep, Montuhotep
4 pharaohs of the 11th dynasty

Mereruka
vizier under Teti (6th dynasty), successor of Kagemni

Meryre, Pepi I, Pepy I
Old Kingdom pharaoh, 6th dynasty

Meryt-Amen
Daughter of Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti, wife of Smenkhkare(?)

Meshwesh (mSwS), Ma
Libyans settled in the Delta during the Third Intermediary Period, mercenaries

Meskhenet
Goddess personification of the birthing stone, two bricks placed under the feet of the woman giving birth in a crouching position

Metjen
Official under Snofru (Biography)

Min
Fertility god Pharaoh, see Menes

Mitanni
Hurrian people living in Naharin (western Mesopotamia), disappeared as an independent nation during the Egyptian New Kingdom

MK
Middle Kingdom