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").

Names:

	Aker (Egyptian deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Egyptian iconography> (P)
		........<Egyptian characters> (P)
		............Aker (Egyptian deity) (I)

Other Relationships:

	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
	..... ULAN Candidate

Sources:

	Aker (Egyptian deity)
	................Hart, George, Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses (2005)
	................BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aker_(deity)#/media/File:Aker.svg