Kherty

Kherty is a god whose name outran his story. He is attested archaeologically from the Second Dynasty and nobody knows what he did then; four dynasties later the Pyramid Texts show him in the Duat, ferrying the dead and apparently dangerous, since one spell asks Ra to keep the king out of his hands. Then he fades. The record says what is attested and leaves the two-hundred-year gap where it is.

Domains

• underworld

Sources

• Kherty is an Egyptian ram-headed god of the Duat, attested from the Second Dynasty, whose role as a ferryman and threat to the dead king appears first in the Pyramid Texts.: Reference treatment of Kherty, his attestation and his Pyramid Text role. (secondary)