Climbing "Hfd" in Ancient Egyptian Religious texts | ||
| مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية | ||
| Volume 33, Issue 1, June 2025, Pages 289-310 PDF (1.94 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/shak.2025.397322.1817 | ||
| Author | ||
| رانيا عبد العزيز* | ||
| fayoum university , Egyptology Department | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Ancient Egyptians, especially normal citizens, depended on themselves in using land transportation to small or even big distances. Peasants, workers and employees used to go to work on foot. References and books have referred to the topics of movement, stepping, and running, while not mentioning “climbing” in the ancient Egyptian language. In This study the word “Hfd”- “Climbing” I mentioned in ancient Egyptian texts. The Pyramid Texts dealt with spells of the word Hfd, where it is mentioned in the spells that the word. In addition, Hfd – Climbing is accompanied by explosion of the sound of sun rays, and that the deceased represents climbing in sunrays in sun columns. Climbing appeared in Pyramid texts among a group of events of which is the king’s climbing on Neftis’s thighs to earn an incense and bread ball. In addition, in Pyramid Texts it is mentioned that the deceased climbs the ladder to ascend to (go up to) Heaven. In Coffin Texts, the deceased “Shu” climbed to get the offerings, ascended with Hathor to Heaven and in the sunlight. While in the Book of the Dead, he ripped evils with “Khnum”, ascended to Heaven, and climbed the rim of the boat of the god to the Hereafter. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Climbing; Shu; Neftis; khnum; Ascending | ||
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