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class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The word <b>Rekhyt</b> from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Egyptian language">Ancient Egyptian</a>: <i lang="egy"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/r%E1%B8%AByt" class="extiw" title="wikt:rḫyt">rḫyt</a></i>, also romanized as <b>Rechit</b>, referred to a people living in the northern <a href="/wiki/Nile_Delta" title="Nile Delta">Nile Delta</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Early_Dynastic_Period_(Egypt)" title="Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)">Early Dynastic Period</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Ancient Egypt</a>, as well as the deity Rekhyt from the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Kingdom_(Egypt)" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle Kingdom (Egypt)">Middle Kingdom</a> onwards. The Rekhyt people’s origins are unclear, as they were not yet considered Egyptians at the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/3rd_millennium_BC" title="3rd millennium BC">3rd millennium BC</a>. Their settlement area extended to the border of <a href="/wiki/Retjenu" title="Retjenu">Retjenu</a>. Early <a href="/wiki/Inscription" class="mw-redirect" title="Inscription">inscriptions</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture" title="Ancient Egyptian architecture">monuments</a> speak of the Rekhyt as <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_mythology" title="Egyptian mythology">mythological</a> inhabitants of the Nile Delta, as all "northern enemies of <a href="/wiki/Upper_Egypt" title="Upper Egypt">Upper Egypt</a>" were also among the "inhabitants of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Qebehu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Qebehu (page does not exist)">Qebehu</a>". </p><p>After the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Kingdom">Old Kingdom</a> and the associated upheaval and religious reorientation, the meaning of the term "Rekhyt" changed. At the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, the name "Rekhyt" was transferred to a new deity. The Rekhyt no longer appeared as a separate people; instead the Egyptians saw a connection with <a href="/wiki/Horus" title="Horus">Horus</a> in the earlier Rekhyt people, especially from the <a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Egypt" title="New Kingdom of Egypt">New Kingdom</a> onwards. The popular name Rekhyt and its associated meaning was subject to change, and the word <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/r%E1%B8%AByt" class="extiw" title="wikt:rḫyt">Rekhyt</a> came to mean "the common people" as a generic term. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Northern_lapwing" title="Northern lapwing">lapwing</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Migratory_bird" class="mw-redirect" title="Migratory bird">migratory bird</a> that overwinters from late <a href="/wiki/October" title="October">October</a> to late <a href="/wiki/March" title="March">March</a> in <a href="/wiki/Siwa_Oasis" title="Siwa Oasis">Siwa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Faiyum" title="Faiyum">Faiyum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bubastis" title="Bubastis">Bubastis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pithom" title="Pithom">Pithom</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Sinai" class="mw-redirect" title="North Sinai">North Sinai</a>. Their wings are distinctively wide and rounded, and they fly with relaxed, leisurely wing beats. The black upper side and white underside, which flash in flight, allows them to be easily identified from a great distance. It is understood that the name of the bird was first applied to the Rekhyt people as a <a href="/wiki/Nickname" title="Nickname">nickname</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-E115_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-E115-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_Lapwing_new.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Northern_Lapwing_new.jpg/220px-Northern_Lapwing_new.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Northern_Lapwing_new.jpg/330px-Northern_Lapwing_new.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Northern_Lapwing_new.jpg/440px-Northern_Lapwing_new.jpg 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="441" /></a><figcaption>Northern lapwing (<a href="/wiki/Vanellus_vanellus" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanellus vanellus">Vanellus vanellus</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>The ancient Egyptians saw the lapwing as a “clumsy mourning bird in the mud” due to its “slowly staggering-fluttering herd flight behavior” and its typical long drawn-out cry “pliit”.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> The assumption was often made earlier in <a href="/wiki/Egyptology" title="Egyptology">Egyptology</a> that the name Rekhyt written with the single <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">hieroglyph</a> G23 </p><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_G23.png?fe6d2" height="38" title="G23" alt="G23" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> was written as a transmission of the lapwing. However, this was an unprovable assumption and had to be corrected.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A people must have a collective name, the name of an individual bird cannot be a <a href="/wiki/Collective_noun" title="Collective noun">collective noun</a>. Rather, the word "Rekhyt" derived from the behavior and appearance of the lapwing that basic meaning after which the ethnic group was later named, with Rekhyt as an <a href="/wiki/Ethnonym" title="Ethnonym">ethnonym</a> referring to the singular nouns "Rekh"<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "Rekhet".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origin">Origin</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The appearance of the lapwing was unknown to the inhabitants of Upper Egypt, as the lapwing did not migrate to the regions around <a href="/wiki/Abydos,_Egypt" title="Abydos, Egypt">Abydos</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_sun_temple" title="Egyptian sun temple">sun temple</a> of <a href="/wiki/Niuserre" class="mw-redirect" title="Niuserre">Niuserre</a>, the lapwing is therefore described as the "bird from Qebehu". In the early days, the people of Rekhyt were mostly opposed to the Upper Egyptian people of the Pat, who saw themselves as the "people of <a href="/wiki/Seth" title="Seth">Seth</a> and Kenmet". In armed conflicts, the defeated also carried the designation "Rekhyt", which is why they were also regarded as legitimate subjects.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, in the story of the Henmemet of the Old Kingdom, the sun god <a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a> was victorious against the people of Rekhyt.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plover_palette.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Plover_palette.png/220px-Plover_palette.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Plover_palette.png/330px-Plover_palette.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Plover_palette.png/440px-Plover_palette.png 2x" data-file-width="496" data-file-height="493" /></a><figcaption>Bound Rekhyt with cage (Lapwing Palette)</figcaption></figure> <p>The translation made by <a href="/wiki/Alan_Gardiner" title="Alan Gardiner">Alan Gardiner</a> with the exclusive meaning "lower class, rebels, vanquished, enemies of Egypt" has been modified in the meantime, as the expression Rekhyt was ambiguous. In the early dynastic period, "Rekhyt" mostly referred to the enemies of Egypt as well as prisoners and subjects. In the eastern region of <a href="/wiki/Sais" class="mw-redirect" title="Sais">Sais</a>, a fragment of a <a href="/wiki/Slate" title="Slate">slate</a> palette depicting a <a href="/wiki/Barque#Barques_and_barque_shrines_in_Ancient_Egypt" title="Barque">barque</a> has been found dating to the reigns of <a href="/wiki/Scorpion_II" title="Scorpion II">Scorpion II</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ka_(pharaoh)" title="Ka (pharaoh)">Ka</a>. Due to the detailed representation of a lapwing on the <a href="/wiki/Bow_(watercraft)" title="Bow (watercraft)">bow</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Determinative" title="Determinative">determinative</a> of a cage,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the find is called the "Lapwing Palette". Its place of origin is unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To the Ancient Egyptians, the “residences of the lapwing” referred to the area around <a href="/wiki/Lower_Egypt" title="Lower Egypt">Lower Egypt</a>. With the beginning of the Old Kingdom, the meaning of the term "Rekhyt" was expanded to denote "<a href="/wiki/Fellahin" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellahin">peasants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Master_craftsman" title="Master craftsman">craftsmen</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-N248_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N248-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Egyptology, therefore, the question discussed is whether the Rekhyt have always been at home in the Nile Delta or whether they settled there later. Due to the scattered Rekhyt places of residence, it is understandable that they were considered among the hostile <a href="/wiki/Nine_bows" title="Nine bows">Nine bows</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Depiction">Depiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Depiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Khnum,_Setos_I.,_Amun.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Khnum%2C_Setos_I.%2C_Amun.jpg/220px-Khnum%2C_Setos_I.%2C_Amun.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Khnum%2C_Setos_I.%2C_Amun.jpg/330px-Khnum%2C_Setos_I.%2C_Amun.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Khnum%2C_Setos_I.%2C_Amun.jpg/440px-Khnum%2C_Setos_I.%2C_Amun.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1367" data-file-height="971" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Seti_I" title="Seti I">Seti I</a> (Rekhyt in his hand)</figcaption></figure> <p>In Egyptian temples, the Rekhyt were described together with the two other strata of the population, the Pat (pꜥt, 'Patricians') and Henmemet (ḥnmmt, 'Sun-people' (of Heliopolis)), as a three-part social system of the ancient Egyptian <a href="/wiki/World_order" class="mw-redirect" title="World order">Maat</a>. In addition, “foreigners and enemies” were depicted in temple decorations as a <a href="/wiki/Pendant_(art)" title="Pendant (art)">Pendant</a> to them, representing <a href="/wiki/Isfet_(Egyptian_mythology)" title="Isfet (Egyptian mythology)">chaos</a>. The pharaoh combined both aspects of ancient Egyptian society, which is why he can often be seen on "standing on the vanquished" or "with the people in his hand". The statues of pharaohs standing on Rekhyt underline their “ruling over the Rekhyt”. </p><p>As a symbol of the Egyptian servant population, the kings held the Rekhyt tightly in their hands. On the western wall of the second <a href="/wiki/Hypostyle" title="Hypostyle">hypostyle</a> hall in the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Seti_I_(Abydos)" title="Temple of Seti I (Abydos)">Temple of Seti I</a> in <a href="/wiki/Abydos,_Egypt" title="Abydos, Egypt">Abydos</a> is a relief of <a href="/wiki/Seti_I" title="Seti I">Seti I</a>, in which Seti kneels with the two-feather crown during his coronation before <a href="/wiki/Amun-Re" class="mw-redirect" title="Amun-Re">Amun-Re</a>, to be appointed the rightful king of Egypt. Seti holds a Rekhyt lapwing in his left hand as a sign that all people in Egypt are under his rule. In his right hand is the <a href="/wiki/Khopesh" title="Khopesh">Khopesh</a> sword and a mace-axe which he receives from Amun-Re to ensure victory in battle.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_Dynastic_Period_and_Old_Kingdom">Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rechit-Standarte_Skorpion.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Rechit-Standarte_Skorpion.PNG/220px-Rechit-Standarte_Skorpion.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Rechit-Standarte_Skorpion.PNG/330px-Rechit-Standarte_Skorpion.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Rechit-Standarte_Skorpion.PNG/440px-Rechit-Standarte_Skorpion.PNG 2x" data-file-width="510" data-file-height="247" /></a><figcaption>Rekhyt on the <a href="/wiki/Scorpion_Macehead" title="Scorpion Macehead">Scorpion Macehead</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Rekhyt can be seen on the <a href="/wiki/Scorpion_Macehead" title="Scorpion Macehead">Scorpion Macehead</a>. The scene is interpreted as a victory of King <a href="/wiki/Scorpion_II" title="Scorpion II">Scorpion II</a> over the Rekhyt people. However, the Rekhyt standards might symbolically represent the control of Scorpion over different areas of Egypt, not necessarily with military conflict. In addition, the creation of irrigation ditches or channels by Scorpion and other people can be seen. </p><p> In the Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom, which include the <a href="/wiki/Palermo_Stone" title="Palermo Stone">Palermo Stone</a>, the Rekhyt are mentioned twice under King <a href="/wiki/Den_(pharaoh)" title="Den (pharaoh)">Den</a> of the <a href="/wiki/First_Dynasty_of_Egypt" title="First Dynasty of Egypt">First Dynasty</a>. In the fourth year of his reign, the reading “People of the Rekhyt” can be made in an otherwise unclear context. In the 31st year of reign, the Rekhyt or their settlement areas play a role in connection with an administrative action carried out by Den. In 1987, Egyptologist <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Helck" title="Wolfgang Helck">Wolfgang Helck</a> translated the difficult passage as “Plan (?) And dig the western and eastern canals (through) the area of the Rekhyt”.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Helck’s reading is based on the interpretation of the pond hieroglyph </p><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_N37.png?33374" height="12" title="N37" alt="N37" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> as <i>canal</i> </p><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_N36.png?d5dbf" height="9" title="N36" alt="N36" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> and the symbol V23 (“mehu”)</p><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_V23.png?2326e" height="27" title="V23" alt="V23" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> as F30 (“schedj”) </p><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_F30.png?e2a10" height="27" title="F30" alt="F30" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> Overall, Helck's assumption fits very well, since such canal construction work was previously documented by King Scorpion II and later in the Old Kingdom. In 2000, <a href="/wiki/Toby_Wilkinson" title="Toby Wilkinson">Toby Wilkinson</a> submitted a slightly modified translation to Helck regarding the 31st year of Den's reign, which adhered to the given hieroglyphs: “Organization? of farms? the north-western delta (Rekhyt) and all people in the eastern delta.” <sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilkinson remarked at his reading that it was also only to be regarded as an interpretation. <a href="/wiki/Anedjib" title="Anedjib">Anedjib</a> (circa 2910 BC) noted another massive <a href="/wiki/Flooding_of_the_Nile" title="Flooding of the Nile">flooding of the Nile</a> in the year after his <a href="/wiki/Sed_festival" title="Sed festival">Sed festival</a>, which affected all north-western districts and triggered a mass epidemic among the Rekhyt people.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The earliest representation of the Rekhyt in the Old Kingdom is a statue in <a href="/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser" title="Pyramid of Djoser">Djoser's pyramid</a> complex, which shows three Rekhyt birds with their wings under <a href="/wiki/Djoser" title="Djoser">Djoser</a>'s feet in connection with the "<a href="/wiki/Nine_Bows" class="mw-redirect" title="Nine Bows">Nine Bows</a>". The hieroglyph </p><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_G24.png?8995b" height="25" title="G24" alt="G24" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> was used for the representation of the Rekhyt. This motif was one of the king's rulership attributes and expressed his power over Egypt and its neighboring regions. </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deity">Deity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Deity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;background-color: #DECD87;">Rekhyt</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Socle_de_statue_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Socle_de_statue_01.jpg/220px-Socle_de_statue_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Socle_de_statue_01.jpg/330px-Socle_de_statue_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Socle_de_statue_01.jpg/440px-Socle_de_statue_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="682" data-file-height="500" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Base of a statue of <a href="/wiki/Nectanebo_II" title="Nectanebo II">Nectanebo II</a> with two Rekhyts</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Name in <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">hieroglyphs</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_D21.png?9bfb9" height="11" title="D21" alt="D21" /><br /><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_Aa1.png?3a810" height="18" title="Aa1" alt="Aa1" /></td> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_M17.png?2e70b" height="38" title="M17" alt="M17" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_M17.png?2e70b" height="38" title="M17" alt="M17" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_X1.png?f2a8c" height="11" title="X1" alt="X1" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_A1.png?f2968" height="31" title="A1" alt="A1" /><br /><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_Z2.png?805ea" height="8" title="Z2" alt="Z2" /></td> </tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>With the decline of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Kingdom">Old Kingdom</a> and the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Kingdom_(Egypt)" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle Kingdom (Egypt)">Middle Kingdom</a>, the position of the king changed. While in earlier times he stood “above the people”, after the <a href="/wiki/First_Intermediate_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="First Intermediate Period">First Intermediate Period</a> he was a “king among the people”. He now had the role of a “<a href="/wiki/Shepherd" title="Shepherd">shepherd</a> of his people”, as a guarantor of security who protected his “flock” and the <a href="/wiki/World_order" class="mw-redirect" title="World order">Maat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this respect, the king held a “command-receiving position” vis-à-vis <a href="/wiki/Amun-Ra" class="mw-redirect" title="Amun-Ra">Amun-Ra</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a>, which symbolically corresponded to the previous Rekhyt mythology. </p><p>A similar change took place in regarding the gods. In the Old Kingdom, a <a href="/wiki/Topography" title="Topography">topography</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Duat" title="Duat">afterlife</a> was irrelevant for non-royal deceased, since only the king could ascend into heaven. With the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, more precise ideas of the afterlife emerged, which were now also accessible to non-royal people. For the accompaniment of the dead and the worship of heavenly deities, new protective and auxiliary gods were necessary, to whom <a href="/wiki/Logistics" title="Logistics">logistical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ritual" title="Ritual">ritual</a> tasks were assigned. The Rekhyt deity had a <a href="/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)" title="Cult (religious practice)">cult</a>-accompanying function and in this network mainly took on the "god and king worshiping" position that was derived from the task previously assigned to the Rekhyt people as subjects and servants of the king.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mythology">Mythology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the lapwing belong to the migratory birds that overwintered in Lower Egypt (Qebehu), a connection was made between the appearance of the <a href="/wiki/Ba_(soul)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ba (soul)">Ba birds</a> and the birds from Qebehu. The mention of food has parallels to the Bas in the island of flames in the 56th scene of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Gates" title="Book of Gates">Book of Gates</a>, where herbs/vegetables (semu) are also given as food. The home of the lapwing was described as "coming from the distant (cooling) waters (of the sky)". A literal translation of the mythological terms used is not possible.<sup id="cite_ref-E106_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-E106-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Already in the Old Kingdom, the region of "the (cooling) waters (of the sky)" was considered to be the area above the goddess <a href="/wiki/Nut_(goddess)" title="Nut (goddess)">Nut</a>, behind which the <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_ocean" title="Cosmic ocean">primordial watery</a> <a href="/wiki/Abyssal_zone" title="Abyssal zone">abyss</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nu_(mythology)" title="Nu (mythology)">Nun</a> begins. In this primordial darkness there are neither <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stars</a> nor other <a href="/wiki/Celestial_bodies" class="mw-redirect" title="Celestial bodies">celestial bodies</a>, only the nothingness of "the primordial waters of Nu". According to ancient Egyptian beliefs, the sky itself was located on the body of the sky goddess Nut, who leaned over the earth in an arch supported on her fingertips and feet. </p><p>The deity Rekhyt has only been documented since the Middle Kingdom. The first mentions of the deity Pat date from around the same period. In a funerary text from the New Kingdom, the deceased proclaimed the words of the sun god <a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a> to Rekhyt. Rekhyt also appeared in other minor forms, such as the <a href="/wiki/Snake" title="Snake">snake</a>-headed 37th of the <a href="/wiki/Assessors_of_Maat" title="Assessors of Maat">Assessors of Maat</a> ("Wedj-Rekhyt"), who checked whether the deceased ever offended a deity in their life.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Together with the deity Pat, Rekhyt worshiped the newborn god child <a href="/wiki/Amun" title="Amun">Amun</a>. It is also mentioned that Rekhyt and Pat "could not harm" the deceased. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Greco-Roman period">Greco-Roman period</a>, the feathers of Rekhyt were symbolically given as hair to the deceased, which saw the Rekhyt as a group who wore a "Peri bandage" on the neck, while the Pat people wore an Areq bandage on the head. As a <a href="/wiki/Triple_deity" title="Triple deity">triad of gods</a>, Henmemet, Pat and Rekhyt were probably among the particularly revered deities in <a href="/wiki/Edfu" title="Edfu">Edfu</a>. <a href="/wiki/Osiris" title="Osiris">Osiris</a> appeared in the subsidiary form "Sau-Rechit (S3w-Rhjt)" as the protective deity of Rekhyt in the 18th Upper Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Nome_(Egypt)" title="Nome (Egypt)">Nome</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Iconography">Iconography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Iconography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The deity Rekhyt first appeared as a group of three kneeling people in cheer who raised their arms. From the New Kingdom onwards, the deity Rekhyt appeared as a community of up to six leaping, each with raised human-shaped arms sitting on a nest worshiping other deities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hatshepsut">Hatshepsut</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Hatshepsut"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rechit-Hatschepsut2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Rechit-Hatschepsut2.JPG/220px-Rechit-Hatschepsut2.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Rechit-Hatschepsut2.JPG/330px-Rechit-Hatschepsut2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Rechit-Hatschepsut2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="412" data-file-height="405" /></a><figcaption>Rekhyt in the <a href="/wiki/Mortuary_Temple_of_Hatshepsut" class="mw-redirect" title="Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut">Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The oldest surviving representations of the divine Rekhyt symbol are in the <a href="/wiki/Mortuary_Temple_of_Hatshepsut" class="mw-redirect" title="Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut">Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Vestibule_(architecture)" title="Vestibule (architecture)">entrance hall</a> of her <a href="/wiki/Chapelle_Rouge" title="Chapelle Rouge">Red Chapel</a>, there is a narrow decorative strip stretching across the entire north wall with symbols of the Rekhyt who, among other things, worship <a href="/wiki/Hatshepsut" title="Hatshepsut">Hatshepsut</a> as "praising their mistress" and in the same posture in the direction of the sanctuary, worship <a href="/wiki/Amun-Re" class="mw-redirect" title="Amun-Re">Amun-Re</a>. This has various interpretations in Egyptology. On the one hand, the Rekhyt are here partly as a symbol of all the Egyptian people, but on the other hand their location on the north wall supports the traditional interpretation as “subjugated inhabitants of Lower Egypt” if the Pat are depicted on the south wall.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Rekhyt hymn to Amun, preserved on the north side of the east wall, was probably present on all the transverse walls of the entrance hall, as two surviving texts can also be found in the sanctuary on the north and south sides: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>All life, all duration and all happiness, all health and all joy; all countries and foreign countries are at the feet of Amun, lord of the thrones of both countries, whom all Rechit praise, for they live (through him) for a million of millions (of years) for (all) eternity.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Entrance hall east wall, north side, block 133 and sanctuary east wall, north side, block 262<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Amenhotep_II">Amenhotep II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Amenhotep II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ramses_III_Rechit.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ramses_III_Rechit.PNG/220px-Ramses_III_Rechit.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ramses_III_Rechit.PNG/330px-Ramses_III_Rechit.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Ramses_III_Rechit.PNG 2x" data-file-width="426" data-file-height="445" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ramesses_III" title="Ramesses III">Ramesses III</a> as a Rekhyt</figcaption></figure> <p>In the forecourt of the <a href="/wiki/Khnum" title="Khnum">Khnum</a> temple in <a href="/wiki/Elephantine" title="Elephantine">Elephantine</a>, there is an inscription in which the Rekhyt are mentioned: “He (Amenophis II) built this temple for his father Khnum, who in Elephantine lives. The festival hall was built so that all Rekhyt people can see what he has done for Khnum.” The Rechit representations are also here, as is usually the case with the examined columned halls, not only in the entrance area but also in other inner rooms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ramesses_III">Ramesses III</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Ramesses III"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Mortuary_Temple_of_Ramesses_III" title="Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III">Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III</a> in <a href="/wiki/Medinet_Habu" title="Medinet Habu">Medinet Habu</a> is the most conspicuous Rekhyt figure of all temples. On the upper outside of the wall of the <a href="/wiki/Migdol" title="Migdol">Migdol</a> entrance gate, <a href="/wiki/Ramesses_III" title="Ramesses III">Ramesses III</a> is represented as Rekhyt in a praying posture; supplemented with the royal insignia of the <a href="/wiki/Nemes" title="Nemes">Nemes</a> headscarf and divine beard as well as the bull attribute. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Augustus">Augustus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Augustus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> had a representation of <a href="/wiki/Harpocrates" title="Harpocrates">Harpocrates</a> in front of three kneeling Rekhyt people in the <a href="/wiki/Mammisi" title="Mammisi">Mammisi</a> of <a href="/wiki/Philae" class="mw-redirect" title="Philae">Philae</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Words to speak: Be silent four times and cheer four times, all Rekhyt people, let us come cheering so that you may see the son of Osiris (Harpocrates), who is your Lord and your Prince.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Mammisi in Philae<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-E115-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-E115_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-E115_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Elmar Edel: <i>Zu den Inschriften auf den Jahreszeitenreliefs der „Weltkammer“ aus dem Sonnenheiligtum des Niuserre, Teil 2</i>. S. 115.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Meinertzhagen" title="Richard Meinertzhagen">Richard Meinertzhagen</a>: <i>Nicoll’s birds of Egypt</i>. Rees, London 1930, S. 547.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Siehe auch Wb II 447,8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Männlicher Kiebitz: <table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_D21.png?9bfb9" height="11" title="D21" alt="D21" /><br /><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_Aa1.png?3a810" height="18" title="Aa1" alt="Aa1" /></td> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_G23.png?fe6d2" height="38" title="G23" alt="G23" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Weiblicher Kiebitz: <table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_D21.png?9bfb9" height="11" title="D21" alt="D21" /><br /><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_Aa1.png?3a810" height="18" title="Aa1" alt="Aa1" /></td> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_X1.png?f2a8c" height="11" title="X1" alt="X1" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_G23.png?fe6d2" height="38" title="G23" alt="G23" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolfgang Helck: <i>Geschichte des Alten Ägypten; Bd. 1, Abschnitt 3</i>. Brill, Leiden 1968, S. 20 und S. 42.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Christian Leitz u. a.: <i>LGG, Register</i>. Peeters, Leuven 2003, ISBN 90-429-1376-2, S. 313.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sonderzeichen U 103 gemäß Petra Vomberg: <i>Sonderzeichenliste</i> In: Rainer Hannig: <i>Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch : (2800 - 950 v. Chr.)</i>. von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9, S. 1448.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Henri Asselbergh: <i>Chaos en beheersing: Documenten uit de aenolitische Egypten</i>. Brill 1961; S. 222–224.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-N248-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-N248_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Simson Najovits: <i>Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree: A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land, Bd. 1</i>. Algora Publishing, New York 2003, ISBN 0-87586-221-7, S. 248.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Farid Atiya: <i>Pocket Book of Ancient Egypt</i>. Amer University, Cairo 2008, ISBN 977-17-4439-9, S. 202.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Helck" title="Wolfgang Helck">Wolfgang Helck</a>: <i>Untersuchungen zur Thinitenzeit</i> (= <i>Ägyptologische Abhandlungen.</i> (ÄA) Bd. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4, S. 157 and Rolf Gundlach: <i>Die Zwangsumsiedlung auswärtiger Bevölkerung als Mittel ägyptischer Politik bis zum Ende des Mittleren Reiches</i>. Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, S. 50–51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Toby A. H. Wilkinson: <i>Royal annals of ancient Egypt: The Palermo Stone and its associated fragments</i>. Kegan Paul, London 2000, S. 108 ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolfgang Helck: <i>Geschichte des Alten Ägypten; Bd. 1, Abschnitt 3</i>. Brill, Leiden 1968, S. 34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hermann Alexander Schlögl: <i>Das alte Ägypten</i>. Beck, München 2008, ISBN 3-406-48005-5, S. 123.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hermann Alexander Schlögl: <i>Das alte Ägypten</i>. Beck, München 2008, ISBN 3-406-48005-5, S. 127.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-E106-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-E106_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Elmar Edel: <i>Zu den Inschriften auf den Jahreszeitenreliefs der „Weltkammer“ aus dem Sonnenheiligtum des Niuserre, Teil 2</i>. S. 106.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Christian Leitz u. a.: <i>Wedj-Rechit</i> In: <i>Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, Bd. 2</i>. Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1147-6, S. 634.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Christian Leitz u. a.: <i>LGG, Bd. 6</i>. Leuven, Peeters 2002, ISBN 90-429-1151-4, S. 130.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Franck Burgos, François Larché, <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Grimal" title="Nicolas Grimal">Nicolas Grimal</a>: <i>La chapelle Rouge: Centre Franco-Égyptien d'Étude des Temples de Karnak, Vol. 1</i>. Éd. Recherche sur les Civilisations, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-86538-300-8, S. 198 und 202.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Karin Stephan: <i>Die Dekoration der „Chapelle Rouge“ in Karnak: Struktur und Funktion (Hochschulschrift, Magisterarbeit 2006)</i>. S. 108.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sandra Sandri: <i>Har-Pa-Chered (Harpokrates): Die Genese eines ägyptischen Götterkindes</i>. Peeters, Leuven 2006, ISBN 90-429-1761-X, S. 104.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rekhyt&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOImWjM-vDs">"All the Rekhyt people Adore" - By Ken Griffin (07 March 2021)</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output 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