Aqen was a rarely mentioned
ancient Egyptian deity of the underworld. He is first mentioned in the famous
Book of the Dead
The ''Book of the Dead'' ( egy, ππ€πππππ€ππππ»π
πππ
±π³π€, ''rw n(y)w prt m hrw(w)'') is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom ( ...
. There, he guided the sun god
Ra as the "protector of Ra's celestial bark" by "bringing the
''shenw''-ring to his majesty". He was also described as the "mouth of the time", from which the gods and demons pulled the "rope of time", as described in the tomb of king
Seti I
Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c.1294 or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. He was the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II.
The ...
.
[Erik Hornung, Marsha Hill: ''The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I''. Artemis Verlag, 1991, , pp. 19.]
See also
* Kherty
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.Georg Meurer: ''Die Feinde des KΓΆnigs in ...
* Charon
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (; grc, ΧάΟΟΞ½) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of Hades, the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the ...
* Duat
The Duat ( egy, dwκ£t, Egyptological pronunciation "do-aht", cop, ⲧβ², also appearing as ''Tuat'', ''Tuaut'' or ''Akert'', ''Amenthes'', ''Amenti'', or ''Neter-khertet'') is the realm of the dead in ancient Egyptian mythology. It has been ...
References
Egyptian death gods
Underworld gods
Egyptian gods
Egyptian underworld
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Time and fate gods