lightland

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Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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Synonym of Akhet (the region in the sky in which the sun tarries just before it rises or after it sets)

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"Appearing on his father’s throne, Like Re when he rises in lightland, He places light above the darkness, He lights the shade with his plumes."
"When you have dawned in eastern lightland, / You fill every land with your beauty."
"The Coffin Texts liturgy begins with spell 30: “A cry goes out from the mouth of the great ones, the lords of the rḫy.t, a plaintive cry sounds in the mouth of the veiled ones at the thunderclap of the gods in Light-land, when they see the terror on their faces, the like of which they have never seen before, when they see Osiris N., how he fares in peace on the roads of the West in his form of a divine ancestral spirit, after he has equipped himself with all the power of spirits, when the great ones at the head of Light-land said to him: […]” And yet the chiefs of Light-land, that is, of the liminal area between sky, earth, and the netherworld, where the sun rises and sets, greet the newcomer as son of the “beautiful West” […]"
"They were intended to assist Unas on his journey to the afterlife and ensure that he would dwell in ‘lightland for all eternity’."

Calque of German Lichtland, itself intended as a rough calque of Egyptian Ax-x*t:N18 (ꜣḫt), on the assumption that it relates to Ax-x:H_SPACE (ꜣḫ, “to be(come) splendid, radiant, glorious”). Apparently first used in English by Miriam Lichtheim (3 May 1914 – 27 March 2004).

Akhet