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Akhty
audit verdict: the only hit is inside Ra-Harakhti
What was searched, and what came back
One hit in eighteen sources, in Petrie's Egyptian Tales — the Tale of Two Brothers:
And he swore an oath by Ra Har-akhti, saying, "Thy coming to slay me by deceit with thy knife was an abomination." [petrie-1895]
That is Ra-Horakhty — "Ra, Horus of the two horizons" — one of the best-known composite gods in Egypt. The string akhty matched the last element of his name.
Verdict — a fragment of a compound, not a standalone god here
Akhty is the horizon-element: "he of the horizon." In this archive it never stands alone. It appears once, welded to Har-, inside a formula a character swears an oath by.
This is form 2 of the Epithet Trap — the element of a compound taken for the whole name — shading into form 3, since the horizon-word is ordinary vocabulary as well as part of divine names.
What this entry does not say. It does not say Akhty is unattested in Egyptian. The horizon-gods are real and the akhty element is productive; it says the eighteen books read here contain it exactly once, as half of somebody else's name.
The oath is worth keeping for its own sake. It is a moment in a folk tale where a wronged brother swears by the sun-god at the horizon and then mutilates himself to prove his innocence — the divine name doing ordinary human work in a story, which is rarer in this archive than a hymn.
The record
Every claim above traces to a row here. Source, exact place in that source, and what it actually supports.
| Source | Locus | Attests |
|---|---|---|
[petrie-1895] | *Egyptian Tales*, second series (trans. Griffith), the Tale of Two Brothers | an oath sworn "by **Ra Har-akhti**" — the only occurrence of the element in eighteen sources |
Sources
[petrie-1895]— Petrie, Egyptian Tales, second series, translated by Griffith. Public domain, archived.
Open questions
- Does the corpus have Ra-Horakhty? If so this slug should point there, or be recorded as a fragment of it. Check ra and horus before creating anything (C258).
- Get the Egyptian for akhty. If it is simply "horizon-dweller," the census name is a description and the entry should say so plainly.
- The Tale of Two Brothers is a substantial narrative text in the archive and this corpus has barely used it. Worth reading whole — folk tales name gods casually, which is different evidence from hymns and often better evidence of what was ordinary.
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.
"Akhty", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded audit, retrieved 2026-08-10.