Chapter 5 (part 4)

38 In addition to the Seven Arits, and the Ten, Fourteen, or Twenty-one Gates (according to the manuscript authority followed), the Sekhet-Hetepet possessed Fourteen or Fifteen Aats, or Regions, each of which was presided over by a god. Their names, as given in the Papyrus of Nu, 1 are as follows:-- Aat I. AMENTET wherein a man lived on cakes and ale; its god was AMSU-QET, or MENU-QET. Aat II. SEKHET-AARU. Its walls are of iron. The wheat here is five cubits high, the barley Click to view Aat I . Click to view Aat II . is seven cubits high, and the Spirits who reap them are nine cubits high. The god of this Aat is RA-HERUKHUTI. Aat III. AATENKHU. Its god was OSIRIS or RA. Aat IV. TUI-QAUI-AAUI. Its god was SATI-TEMUI. Aat V. AATENKHU. The Spirits here live upon the inert and feeble. Its god was probably OSIRIS. p. 39 Click to view Aat III . Click to view Aat IV . Click to view Aat V . Aat VI. AMMEHET, which is presided over either by SEKHER-AT or SEKHER-REMUS. This was sacred to the gods, the Spirits could not find it out, and it was accursed for the dead. Aat VII. ASES, a region of burning, fiery flame, wherein the serpent REREK lives. Aat VIII. HA-HETEP, a region containing roaring torrents of water, and ruled over by a god called QA-HA-HETEP. A variant gives the name of this Aat as HA-SERT, and that of its god as FA-PET. Click to view Aat VI . Click to view Aat VII . Click to view Aat VIII . p. 40 Click to view Aat IX . Click to view Aat X . Aat IX. AKESI, a region which is unknown even to the gods; its god was MAA-THETEF, and its only inhabitant is the "god who dwelleth in his egg." Aat X. NUT-ENT-QAHU, i.e., the city of Qahu. It was also known by the name APT-ENT-QAHU. The gods of this region appear to have been NAU, KAPET, and NEHEB-KAU. Aat XI. ATU, the god of which was SEPT (Sothis). Aat XII. UNT, the god of which was HETEMET-BAIU; also called ASTCHETET-EM-AMENT. Click to view Aat XI . Click to view Aat XII . p. 41 Aat XIII. UART-ENT-MU: its deity was the hippopotamus-god called HEBT-RE-F. Aat XIV. The mountainous region of KHER-AHA, the god of which was HAP, the Nile. A brief examination of this list of Aats, or Regions, suggests that the divisions of Sekhet-hetepet given in it are arranged in order from south to north, for it is well known that Amentet, the first Aat, was entered from the neighbourbood of Thebes, and that the last-mentioned Aat, i.e., Kher-aha, represents a region quite Click to view Aat XIII . Click to view Aat XIV .