Sia
Egyptian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Sia holds the papyrus roll. He is knowledge as a faculty rather than as a body of facts — the capacity to perceive what is actually there — and the Egyptians put him in the boat with the sun because a god who could not see what was coming would be no safer in the Duat than anyone else. With Hu and with Heka, magic, he forms the working equipment of creation: see it, say it, and the saying has force.
Domains
- perception
Relations
- sibling: HuPaired with Hu: perception first, then the word.Reference treatment of Hu and Sia as a matched pair of deified abstractions. (secondary)
- subordinate to: RaCrew of the solar barque.The Book of Gates: Sia among the crew of the solar barque. (primary)
Sources
- Sia is the Egyptian personification of perception and divine knowledge, a crew member of the solar barque beside Hu.: Reference treatments of Sia and Hu. (secondary); The Book of Gates. (primary)