Khem

English Etymology 1 From en egy ḫm Letopolis. Proper noun Letopolis en 1968 Joseph Kaster Wings of the Falcon: Life and Thought of Ancient Egypt 75 The city of Khem, or Kherti. which the Greeks called Letopolis, was situated close to the fork of the Delta. en 1982 Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 12 153 His titles are given, apart from vizier, as prophet of Amun, great seer of Heliopolis, wener-priest in Khem (Letopolis), and sem-priest of the temple of Ptah in Memphis. en 2003 Simson R. Najovits Egypt, Trunk of the Tree 1 23 At least from the Fourth Dynasty (c. 2566 BC), Horus, in Khem (Letopolis) in Lower Egypt, was the falcon Harmerti, or Horkhenti-Irti (“Horus of the two eyes”) with his right eye being the sun and his left eye the moon, Mekhenti-er-Irti (“he who has no eyes”) when the sun and moon were invisible and Khenti-Irti (“he who has eyes”), or Khenty-Khem, “the foremost of Khem,” when the sun and moon re-appeared. Etymology 2 From a 19th-century misreading of en egy mnw Min Min as egy ḫm; the confusion arose because the hieroglyph R22 can function as both a logogram for egy mnw Min and a phonogram for egy ḫm. Proper noun en dated the Egyptian god Min en 1855 w:Reginald Stuart Poole Egypt w:Encyclopedia Britannica 8 8th 436 Khem was a god by whom the productiveness of nature was emblematized. en 1878 w:John Gardner Wilkinson The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians 3 revised 25 The assertion of Herodotus, that the Egyptians represented the god Pan, like the Greeks, with the head and legs of a goat, applies neither to the god Khem, nor to any other deity in the Egyptian Pantheon, and is as little worthy of credit as the statement he afterwards makes respecting an occurrence in the Mendesian nome en 1882 w:George Rawlinson History of Ancient Egypt 2 144 Another peculiarity of the period is the prominence given to Mentu and Khem, who have hitherto been very subordinate and insignificant deities. Etymology 3 From en grc Χημίᾱ or en cop-boh ⲭⲏⲙⲓ Egypt, both ultimately from en egy kmt Egypt. The final vowels were apparently dropped to form a closer match to the Biblical Ham. First attested in 1837. Proper noun en dated or poetic Egypt en 1837 w:John Gardner Wilkinson The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians first edition, volume 1, page 2 The name of Ham is, in fact, the same as that of Egypt, Khem, or Cham; and Moses may have pointed out the eastern origin of the Egyptians by introducing him as a son of Noah. en 1935 w:H. P. Lovecraft w:The Haunter of the Dark It crossed strange lands and stranger seas, and sank with Atlantis before a Minoan fisher meshed it in his net and sold it to swarthy merchants from nighted Khem. The Pharaoh Nephren-Ka built around it a temple with a windowless crypt, and did that which caused his name to be stricken from all monuments and records. en 1967 w:Roger Lancelyn Green Tales of Ancient Egypt There has been many a Pharaoh in the Land of Khem, in the Double Land of Egypt, and some of them have been great and have pleased me well. Anagrams en ehkm Kehm