Aker
Egyptian · deity · primordial · deity
Aker is the earth understood as a passage rather than a floor. He is drawn as two lions sitting back to back with the sun between them, one looking at yesterday and one at tomorrow, and the space between them is the whole night: the barque enters in the west, travels through the ground, and comes out in the east. Put on a headrest — where the sleeper's own head goes between the two lions — the image says something fairly direct about what sleep is.
Domains
- horizon
Relations
- subordinate to: Ra
Sources
- Reference treatments of Aker, his double-lion form and his guardianship of the horizon gates.