Source
petrie-1895
Petrie, Egyptian Tales first series (1895), the Westcar Papyrus. Public domain, archived in sources-texts/. A literary tale, not a ritual text — evidence of what the gods were imagined doing, which is a different thing from cult practice.
8 attestations across 4 entries rest on this source — 1% of every attestation in the corpus.
What rests on it
If this source were withdrawn, these are the claims that would need re-sourcing. That is the point of listing them.
| Entry | Locus | Attests |
|---|---|---|
| Akhty ⚠audit | *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 |
| Djedefhor ◐partial | Westcar Papyrus, "Hordedef's Tale" | Khufu sends him personally — "Thou, thyself, Hordedef, my son, bring him to me" — to fetch Dedi, who "knows **the designs of the dwelling of Tahuti**" |
| Djedefhor ◐partial | same | Khufu wants those designs "that he may make the like of them **in his pyramid**" |
| Djedefhor ◐partial | same | the salutation to worthy age; Djedefhor raises the old man up and walks him to the boat on his arm |
| Djedefhor ◐partial | same | **Dedi refuses to behead a prisoner** — "Let it not be a man… behold we do not even thus to our cattle" |
| Heqet ●full | Westcar Papyrus, "Tales of the Magicians" | Hakt among the five deities sent by Ra to deliver Rud-didet |
| Heqet ●full | same, repeated three times | "Then Isis stood before her, and Nebhat stood behind her, and Hakt helped her" |
| Khnum ●full | Westcar Papyrus | "Khnumu was with them as a porter"; "Khnumu gave strength to his limbs," three times |