We could not trace this name to a source we trust. The page is the investigation.
Ash
not an Egyptian deity (census-mislink)
Why this entry exists
The census carries this name, and the census is a list of Egyptian deities. This is an Amazigh (Berber) sky god.
The census link resolves to "Ash or Yuc (Tamazight: ⵢⵓⵛ)… was an Amazigh sky god" — North African, not Egyptian.
But the name may still be legitimate, like sed before it (C178). Egypt had an Ash, god of the Libyan desert and the oases, attested from the Early Dynastic period. So the link is rejected here and the name stays in the research queue; only the article is wrong.
Why it survived so long
This name sat in the common-word tier — the class where a search score is meaningless because the name is also an ordinary word. ash scored hits in the archive, but every one is the English or Egyptian common noun, not a god.
That tier was created (C143) precisely because counting could not triage it, and it required reading. It was then deferred for eight batches while better-scoring work kept appearing. This is what was sitting in it.
What was searched
All 16 archived sources, 2026-07-30. Any hits are coincidental matches on ordinary words.
The record
Nothing. That is the finding.
Sources
[wp-list-egyptian-deities]— English Wikipedia, List of Egyptian deities. Aggregate list; the origin of this error.
Open questions
- The name
ashstays in the research queue. Egyptian Ash, god of the Libyan desert and the oases, is a real deity; only this census link is rejected. - Determine whether the underlying aggregate list held a genuine Egyptian name here that link-resolution lost, or whether the name was spurious from the start.
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.
"Ash", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded audit, retrieved 2026-08-10.