The Egyptian God Corpus
⚠auditsuspected contamination

We could not trace this name to a source we trust. The page is the investigation.

Aa

audit verdict

Why this entry exists

This name reached the census from an aggregate list whose only citation for it was a source this reference does not accept — an excluded aggregator, a self-published site, or in one case a student project. Rather than delete the name or describe it as though it were established, the entry records the investigation.

Deleting it would be tidier and less useful: a reader who encounters this name elsewhere deserves to be able to find out what it actually rests on.

What was checked

  • 1. Searched every archived source text for the name, including a consonantal-skeleton match to allow for Budge-era vs modern spellings (scripts/lookup.py).
  • 2. Checked whether the census's own linked Wikipedia article exists, and what it is actually about.
  • 3. Recorded a verdict, the evidence for it, and the check that would settle it.

What was found

Cited only to a personal Weebly site. The census's own Wikipedia link resolves to the disambiguation page for the letter pair 'AA' — that is, there is no article about a deity of this name at all. No occurrence in any archived source text. Note that aa is a common Egyptian element meaning 'great', which is exactly the kind of fragment that can be mistaken for a name.

How much weight this carries

Our archived corpus is entirely Budge-era. Absence from it is WEAK evidence for a modern spelling, because the same god may be written quite differently there. Wikipedia is an aggregate list (Tier C). It can establish what a claim IS and how it is classified, but never that a name is attested. No verdict below promotes a name on Wikipedia's authority alone. 'Unsupported' here means 'no support found by these checks', not 'proven fabricated'.


Verdict — unsupported by any check available

In plain English: We looked and found nothing. That is not proof it was invented — only that nothing we can check supports it.

Remains an audit entry.

What would settle it: A search of Leitz's LGG, which indexes name-elements as well as names.

The record

Nothing. That is the finding.

Sources

  • [wp-list-egyptian-deities] — English Wikipedia, List of Egyptian deities, retrieved 2026-07-28. Aggregate list; census use only, never sufficient to establish attestation.
  • Excluded and not cited: the aggregator or self-published page that was this name's only support. See 04-BIBLIOGRAPHY.md.
  • [lgg] — Leitz (ed.), Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen. In copyright and library-only; the reference most likely to settle these questions.

Open questions

  • A search of Leitz's LGG, which indexes name-elements as well as names.
  • Re-run this audit once the Amduat and Book of Gates guardian rosters are recovered from better scans; several of these names may simply be residents of the underworld books.

Cite this entry

Research grade: ⚠audit — Attestation could not be verified. This entry is the audit.

This entry should not be cited as a description of a deity. It records an unverified name and the state of the investigation into it.

"Aa", The Egyptian God Corpus, graded audit, retrieved 2026-08-10.