We could not trace this name to a source we trust. The page is the investigation.
Sed
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 a Unix text-processing utility.
"sed (short for stream editor) is a utility that transforms text via a script…"
But the name may still be legitimate. Egypt had a Sed-festival (ḥb-sd), the royal jubilee, and Sed is also recorded as a divine name. So unlike the other mislinks, this one may be a real Egyptian name whose link went wrong rather than a name that never belonged. It stays in the research queue; only the census link is rejected here.
How it got here
The census was built by taking an aggregate list of deity names and following each to its Wikipedia article. Where a name is ambiguous, that resolution lands silently on the wrong page, and the pipeline records the result as though it described a god.
The corpus already tracked these as a mislinked tier. Auditing that tier (finding C178) showed it conflates three different failures, which need different handling:
| Failure | Treatment |
|---|---|
| the article is not about a deity at all | ⚠ audit, census-mislink — this page |
| a real deity of a pantheon with no Egyptian presence | ⚠ audit, out-of-scope-pantheon |
| a deity of an adjacent culture genuinely entangled with Egypt | stays in the research queue |
Kept rather than deleted so the roster stays complete and the error stays visible.
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
- Determine whether the underlying aggregate list held a genuine Egyptian name here that the link-resolution step lost, or whether the name was spurious from the start. Only the second means it should go.
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.
"Sed", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded audit, retrieved 2026-08-10.