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ID: 901002536 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002536 | Record Type: Character/Person |
Aker (Egyptian deity) | ||
Note: Ancient Egyptian god of Earth and the East and West Horizons. Depicted as a recumbent lion with a widely opened mouth; later depicted as twin lion torsos, merged with each other but looking away from each other. The twin lions were called Duaj (meaning "yesterday") and Sefer (meaning "tomorrow"). | |
Aker (Egyptian deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N) | |
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P) | ||
....<Egyptian iconography> (P) | ||
........<Egyptian characters> (P) | ||
............Aker (Egyptian deity) (I) | ||
role/characteristic is .... deity | |
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
culture/religion is .... Ancient Egyptian (culture) | |
.....(Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
deity of .... Earth | |
.....(Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy) (TGN) |
Aker (Egyptian deity) | |
................Hart, George, Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses (2005) | |
................BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021) | |
................ Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aker_(deity)#/media/File:Aker.svg | |
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