Aker (deity)

Aker
Twin lions (yesterday and tomorrow) believed to guard the eastern and western horizons as the points where the sun touches the twin-peaked mountain top of the earth where it leaves and re-enters the underworld.
Name in hieroglyphs
Ak
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or
Ak
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SymbolHorizon

Aker was an ancient Egyptian personification of the horizon, and an earth and underworld god, believed to guard the eastern (Bakhu) and western (Manu) horizons.[1]

  1. ^ "The Mountains and Horizon of Ancient Egypt". www.touregypt.net. Retrieved 2023-05-25.

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