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Akhet Hwt-Hrw
Akhet is a transcription of various Egyptian words. Akhet may refer to: * Akhet (season), Akhet, the season of the flood in the ancient Egyptian calendar * Akhet (hieroglyph), Akhet, a hieroglyph, meaning "horizon" * Akhet (album), ''Akhet'', an album by Belgian industrial music band Klinik {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhet (season)
The Season of the Inundation or Flood ( egy, Ꜣḫt) was the first season of the lunar and civil Egyptian calendars. It fell after the intercalary month of Days over the Year ('). and before the Season of the Emergence ('). In the modern Coptic Calendar, this season lasts from Paoni 12 to Paopi 9. Names The pronunciation of the ancient Egyptian name for the Season of the Inundation is uncertain as the hieroglyphs do not record its vowels. It is conventionally transliterated Akhet. The name refers to the annual flooding of the Nile. Lunar calendar In the lunar calendar, the intercalary month was added as needed to maintain the heliacal rising of Sirius in the fourth month of the season of the Harvest. This meant that the Season of the Inundation usually lasted from September to January. Because the precise timing of the flood varied, the months of "Inundation" no longer precisely reflected the state of the river but the season was usually the time of the annual flood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhet (hieroglyph)
__NOTOC__ Akhet ( egy, Ꜣḫt; Gardiner:N27) is an Egyptian hieroglyph that represents the sun rising over a mountain. It is translated as "horizon" or "the place in the sky where the sun rises". Betrò describes it as "Mountain with the Rising Sun" (The hieroglyph for "mountain" is 𓈋) and an ideogram for "horizon". Akhet appears in the Egyptian name for the Great Pyramid of Giza (''Akhet Khufu''), and in the assumed name of Akhetaten, the city founded by pharaoh Akhenaten. It also appears in the name of the syncretized form of Ra and Horus, Ra-Horakhty (', "Ra–Horus of the Horizons"). In ancient Egyptian architecture, the pylon mirrored the hieroglyph. The symbol is sometimes connected with the Egyptian deity Aker Aker may refer to: Places * Aker, Norway, a geographic area in Oslo and a former municipality in Norway * Vestre Aker, a district of Oslo within former Aker municipality * Nordre Aker, a district of Oslo within former Aker municipality * Aker Br ... an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |