Sah (god)

Sah (sꜣḥ) was a god in Ancient Egyptian religion, representing a constellation that encompassed the stars in Orion and Lepus,^[1] as well as stars found in some neighbouring modern constellations.^[2][3]

Sah
Sah was "The father of the gods", which was a personification of modern Orion and Lepus Constellations.
Name in hieroglyphs
Symbol	star
Consort	Sopdet (star Sirius)
Offspring	Sopdu

His consort was Sopdet known by the ancient Greek name as Sothis,^[4] the goddess of the star Sirius. Sah came to be associated with a more important deity, Osiris, and Sopdet with Osiris's consort Isis.^[5]

Sah was frequently mentioned as "the Father of Gods" in the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts. The pharaoh was thought to travel to Orion after his death.^[5]

References

1. Shaltout, Belmonte (August 1, 2005). "On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples: (1) Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 36 (3): 273–298. Bibcode:2005JHA....36..273S. doi:10.1177/002182860503600302. S2CID 54508592.
2. Belmonte, J. A (2003). Ad astra per aspera et per ludum: European archeoastronomy and the orientation of monuments in the Mediterranean basin - A map of the ancient Egyptian firmament (by Maravelia, A.-A. (BAR International Series, 1154) ed.). Oxford. pp. 31–38.
3. Belmonte, J.A (2003). Calendars, symbols and orientations: Legacies of astronomy in culture - The Ramesside star clocks and the ancient Egyptian constellations (Blomberg, M., Blomberg, P., Henrikson, G. (Stockholm, 2003) ed.).
4. "Sah and Sopdet (Sothis), the Egyptian Astral God and Goddess". www.touregypt.net. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
5. Wilkinson, Richard H. (2003). The complete gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 127. ISBN 978-0-500-05120-7.