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Sah has a minion!

Orion the Gustiss

Sah

The

Galactic Antlephore
Owner: Sekhmet

Age: 5 years, 6 months, 4 weeks

Born: October 21st, 2020

Adopted: 5 years, 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Adopted: October 21st, 2020

Statistics

Level: 21
Strength: 36
Defense: 10
Speed: 10
Health: 10
HP: 10/10
Intelligence: 130
Books Read: 109
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Rehabilitator

The personification of the constellation Orion, Sah was an important aspect of funerary rites, welcoming the deceased to the afterlife. The Coffin Texts say: “I find Sah standing in my path with his staff of rank in his hand; I accept it from him and I will be a god by means of it.”

According to Robert Bauval, “Sah” was the original Egyptian word for “mummy,” in the sense that when a person died they became an astral body of stars.

Orion was, to the ancient Egyptians, the most distinctive of all the constellations in the night sky, as it rose directly before the adjacent star Sirius. The heliacal rising of Sirius/Sopdet marked the beginning of the Egyptian year, thus explaining the connection between these two ancient gods from a very early date. Orion/Sah presided over the cycle of festivals through the course of the year.

In the Pyramid Texts, Sah is said to traverse the sky from the east to the west and have a “season in the sky and a season in the earth,” an allusion to the period when Orion spends 70 days beneath the horizon. Sah was thought to be reborn from the underworld each year, with his wife Sopdet reviving him.

Orion and Sirius—Sah and Sopdet—come to be strongly associated with Osiris and Isis. In a 4th century B.C.E. papyrus, Isis asserts that she is Sopdet, who will unswervingly follow Osiris in his manifestation as Orion in heaven.

The son of Ra and Nut, Sah's wife was Sopdet, and their child Sopedu.

Credits

❖ Story by Sekhmet with information from these sources
❖ Background photo from Hasmik Ghazaryan Olson
❖ Profile by Balloon