Sah

Sah is Orion, and he is drawn exactly as the constellation looks if you are willing to see a man in it: striding forward in a boat, turning his head back over his shoulder, a star above him. Sirius follows him up over the horizon, which is why they are a couple. The Pyramid Texts identify the dead king with him — and with Osiris, who is also Orion — so that the king's afterlife is a constellation: something that sets, is gone for its proper season, and returns on time.

Children

• Sopdu

Domains

• stars

Relations

• spouse: SopdetOrion and Sirius, in the order they rise.Pyramid Texts, pairing Sah with Sopdet. (primary)
• counterpart of: OsirisIdentified with Osiris: the god who dies and returns, set in the sky as the constellation that disappears and comes back on schedule.Pyramid Texts, identifying the dead king as Osiris and as Sah. (primary)

Sources

• Sah is the Egyptian personification of the constellation Orion, paired with Sopdet as Sirius, father of Sopdu, and identified with Osiris in the Pyramid Texts.: Pyramid Texts. (primary); Reference treatments of Sah, of Sopdet and of Egyptian astral religion. (secondary)