Hu

Hu is the Egyptian theory of magic, compressed into one god. The premise is that a word said properly, by someone entitled to say it, does not describe the world but alters it — which is why spells are written down, why names are powerful, and why defacing a name defaces its owner. Atum makes the Ennead by speaking, and the speaking itself becomes a god who then rides in the boat. He travels with Sia, perception, which is the necessary other half: knowing what is the case, and then saying it into being.

Domains

• speech

Relations

• sibling: SiaPaired with Sia throughout: perception and utterance, in that order — you see what is the case and then you say it, and saying it makes it so. Recorded as a sibling pair because the texts treat them as a matched set rather than as a marriage.Reference treatment of Hu and Sia as a pair of deified abstractions crewing the solar barque together. (secondary)
• subordinate to: RaCrew of the solar barque.The Book of Gates: Hu among the crew of the solar barque. (primary)

Sources

• Hu is the Egyptian personification of authoritative utterance, the deified first word of creation, who crews the solar barque beside Sia.: Reference treatments of Hu and Sia as deified abstractions of command and perception. (secondary); The Book of Gates. (primary)