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Creator
Hu and Sia
ḥw / sjꜣAuthoritative speech (Hu)Perception and understanding (Sia)
How it changed
A pair that breaks the act of creation into its two parts: Sia is the perception that conceives a thing and Hu is the commanding word that brings it about, and the creator needs both. They matter less as objects of worship than as evidence that Egyptians analysed creation into thought and speech long before the Memphite Theology set the idea out in full.
Cult centre
None; they attend the sun god rather than hold a city
Best attested
Old Kingdom onward, in the Pyramid Texts
Family
- ParentsRa, from drops of his blood, in one account
Produced from drops of the sun god's own blood, in one account.
Epithets
- “The utterance and the mind of the creator”
How to recognise the figure
Two men who ride in the solar barque flanking Ra, rarely shown apart.
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