Ba-khati
unresearched
What is claimed
The census carries this name with the following description, taken verbatim from the aggregate list it was extracted from:
A goddess
Source grading in that list: Lesser-known deities / Goddesses.
Research status
Not yet researched. Nothing above has been checked against a primary text. No claim on this page should be cited. The description is recorded so the roster is complete and so the starting point is visible — not because it is established.
Per 00-README.md rule 4, an aggregate list is sufficient to show a name is in circulation and never sufficient to show it is attested. This entry becomes a real one when someone finds it in a primary source and fills in the format from ENTRY-FORMAT.md.
Investigated claims
Working material — not established fact.
Working material — not established fact. This section records claims and working hypotheses that have not yet been confirmed against a dated primary source or peer-reviewed scholarship. It is provided to show the current state of an open investigation, and it is expected to change: statements here may be revised, reattributed, or withdrawn entirely as research proceeds. Nothing in this section should be cited as established, and it carries none of the authority of the attested sections above. Where a claim is later confirmed, it moves out of this section and into the entry proper with its citation.
Name elements. Egyptian divine names are strongly compositional, and this one appears to contain recognised elements: ba — the ba, the soul. On that reading the name would describe a function or a location rather than serve as a personal name — which is common, and which raises the possibility that this is an epithet of a known deity rather than an independent god (see 05-TRANSLITERATION.md, the epithet trap). The glosses above are conventional approximations of Budge-era transliterations and have not been checked against a grammar.
Possible cross-corpus match. A name matching this one appears in the OCR extraction of Budge's Book of Am-Tuat at hour(s) 3 (data/amduat-hours.json). That extraction is itself unverified — the scan garbles diacritics — so this is a lead to check against the page images, not an attestation. If it holds, this entry gains a dated primary source and should be rewritten.
What would settle any of the above: the Amduat and Book of Gates rosters [budge-1905], the Book of the Dead spell list [budge-1901], and — decisively — a search of Leitz's Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen [lgg], which indexes divine names and epithets on a scale nothing else approaches.
Group: the Third Division of the Tuat — the goddess who holds an eye of Horus in each hand — figure 22 of the lower register, standing beside Khetra, warder of the Field [budge-1905].
Under the companies rule (C246) this is a pointer rather than an entry: the sources name the figure and describe only the register it belongs to.
Sources
[wp-list-egyptian-deities]— English Wikipedia, List of Egyptian deities, retrieved 2026-07-28. Aggregate list; census use only.
Open questions
- Search the Amduat and Book of Gates rosters [budge-1905] for this name.
- Search the Book of the Dead spell list [budge-1901].
- Establish the Egyptological transliteration and the earliest attested period.
- Determine whether this is an independent deity or an epithet.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ⇄duplicate — A second spelling or roster listing of a name entered elsewhere.
"Ba-khati", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded duplicate, retrieved 2026-08-10.