Shadow of the Sun (The Shadow Saga)

by Merrie P. Wycoff

  Bread beer: A thick beer which looked like gruel. Alcohol killed parasites and bacteria

  Celestial Lords: The Lords of Karma whom Merit-Aten made a deal with before birth

  Choosing: In this matrilineal society—the name and property and throne is passed on through the mother. A daughter is allowed to choose her mate.

  Consort: A husband or wife

  Co-regents: When the Pharaoh appoints a son or daughter to rule with him in order to educate him/her in-court matters.

  Cosmic Sun: The Great Central Sun—home of the Aten

  Dazzling Aten: The famous golden barge given as a gift to Queen Ti-Yee

  Deben: A measurement of silver

  Delphinium: Blue flower

  Demesne: (Do.main) Mansion

  Denderah: (Den.der.ah) The Temple on the Nile dedicated to Hathor, where the Per Akh birth house is located and home to the Maidens of Amem

  Djed: (Jed) Grandfather, or the name of the pillar associated with the backbone symbolizes stability

  Djedti: (Jedi) Grandmother

  Djeser-Djeseru: (Jes.er.Jes.er.ru) The Holy of Holies or the most sacred spot in the Temple where an object of power is placed

  Duat: (Doo.at) The astral or underworld plane one enters upon death before they go to Amentii. The abode of Osiris. Easting: Birthing, or being born and refers to the Sun rising in the East at the beginning of each day

  Electrum: Gold and silver mixed with a bit of copper

  Ennead: The nine Gods and Goddesses

  Faience: (Fay.ence) Glazed ceramic usually a royal blue color

  Fanbearer: He Who Has the Ears of the King or Queen Frankincense: (Frank.en.sense) Dried tree sap that comes from trees of the genus Boswellia

  Gem-pa-Aten: The great Aten Temple built between Karnak and Luxor, the mudbricks can still be found at Luxor used in the 9th pylon

  Grand Elder Tuya: Queen Ti-Yee’s mother and consort to Yuya

  Hanuti: (Ha.noot.tea) The elite black sorcerers of the Amun priesthood

  Hapi: (Happy) Neter or God of the Nile

  Harem: (Hair.em) House or private quarters for the living area of women and children

  Hathor: (Hath.or) The Cow-earred Goddess of Denderah, who rules over childbirth and music

  Hatshepsut: (Hat.shep.soot) Queen Hatshepsut—wife of Tutmosis II who died and left the throne to his son Tutmosis III. Hatshepsut shared co-regency with stepson Tutmosis III but declared and portrayed herself as a male Pharaoh.

  Heka: (Heck.ah) Neter of wisdom and sacred sounds, plural is Hekau, also the sign of the crook

  Heka Tekhennu: (Heck.ah Tech.can.noo) The distorted ritual of sacrificing a young child and drinking their blood to ensure abundance

  Heliopolis: (He.lee.op.po.lis) The solar cult temple

  HeMeti: (Heh.Me.tea) The female head of the household, She Who Has the Last Word. The symbol for Isis is a woman with a throne on her head meaning the woman passes on the throne and should be treated with great respect and given a chair with a stool for her feet.

  Hep-Mut: (Hep.Moot) The dwarf nursemaid to Merit-Aten

  Heraqhet test: (Hair.auk) Initiation in the crystal chamber to measure one’s ability to hold the light of the Aten

  Hieroglyphics: (Hi.ro.glyph.icks) Greek for sacred texts, the carved reliefs on the walls

  Hittite: (Hit-tight) The great enemy of Egypt in Hatti, North Syria. They were a mixed race of people who occupied most of Antolia

  Holy of Holies: The most sacred inner sanctum called the Djeser-Djeseru

  Hoopoe bird: The Hoopoes are a small Old World family of two or three species. All have long, thin, and decurved bills; broad round wings; square tails crossed by a wide white band, and long erectile crests. All species also have dramatic black and white wing patterns.

  Horemheb: (Hor.em.heb) The General under Pharaoh Akhenaten, his name translates as Big News of He Who Comes to the Feast, he was a cheese maker’s son from Khepert and later ruled as a Pharaoh

  Hwt-Ben Ben: (He.ben.ben) The red granite obelisk which represented a ray of the sun

  Ib-Ra: One of Akhenaten’s Council of Twelve

  Ichneumon: (Ick.new.mon) A mongoose

  Imhotep: (Im.ho.tep) The title of the Master of all Architects

  Isis: or Aset: The Goddess of nature and magic and fertility, consort of

  Osiris

  Ka: The physical or astral projection of the soul which is still attached to the body

  Karnak: (Car.nak) The Administrative Temple of Amun set in Thebes where the Amun priesthood, clergy, scribes, stewards and overseers remained

  Kheperesh Crown: (Kep.er.resh) The blue crown or war crown made of cloth or leather

  Keshtuat: (Kesh.tu.a) The Nubian girl with long braids in the class of initiates, daughter of the Court Costume Maker

  Khemit: Khemitian: KMT (Chem.it) Name for Egypt referring to the black alluvial soil

  Kheper: (Kef.er) The first stage of the sun when light begins to shine upon the people, also another name for the scarab beetle which pushes a ball of dung

  Khepri-Aten: (Kef.free.Ah.ten) Priestess of the Aten Temple Khonsu: (Kon.zoo) The Amun golden idol and moonchild, son of Amun and Lion Goddess Mut. The three are considered to be part of the Theban triad.

  Khyphi: (Kef.ee) A heavy incense used to fumigate the temples

  Kiya: The Royal Harpist and mother to Smenkhkare

  KMT: (Chem.it) The black land of Egypt, famous for the alluvial soil washed down from the Nile flood

  Kohl: The eyeliner commonly used to shield the eyes from the harsh sunlight

  Lotus: A perennial plant in the monogeneric family Nelumbonaceae

  Lustration of the Rites of Osiris: Last rites said to the deceased to rectify his ka

  Luxor: (Loox.or) The modern name for the Southern Ipet whose later Arabic title of el-Aksur meant the castles. Set on the Nile banks.

  Ma’at: Truth and justice

  Maet kheru: (Ma.et Care.oo) Justified or rectified meaning Osirified

  Maidens of Amem: The beautiful women who teach the Ritual of Love for the Potentiation of souls at Denderah Temple

  Malachite: (Mal.la.kite) Emerald green stone

  Malkata Palace: (Mal.ka.ta) The mudbrick palace of Pharaoh Amunhotep III and Queen Ti-Yee located in Thebes

  Mandragore: (Man.dra.gor) The root of a nightshade which contains deliriant hallucinogenics used in magic rituals

  Maru: The Egyptian word for lake in front of the Luxor Temple

  Meket-Aten: (Meke.taten) The second frail daughter of Queen Nefertiti and Pharaoh Akhenaten, Merit-Aten’s younger sister

  Merit-Aten: (Mery.taten) First born daughter of Per Aat Nefertiti and Pharaoh Akhenaten

  Mery-Ptah: (Mery.Pa.tah) The Amun High Priest and boyfriend to Sit-Amun

  Messeh: (Mess.eh) The Khemitian word for anointment

  Meti: (Met.tea) Merit-Aten’s pet name for mother, short for HeMeti

  Mitanni: (Mit.tan.ni) A feudal state established by the Hurrians located around Naharin between the Upper Tigris and the Euphrates

  Mudbrick: The clay bricks made for homes and palaces, anything that wasn’t meant to be permanent and could be washed away

  Mutemwia: (Mu.tem.wee.ah) A minor wife to King Tuthmosis IV. She supposedly conceived a child with the God Amun-Ra and their son, Amunhotep III, became Pharaoh. Merit-Aten’s great grandmother.

  Mutnodjmet: (Moot.nah.ja.met) The younger sister of Nefertiti

  Mycenae: (My.sin.nay.ah) Greece

  Myrrh: (Murr) The dried oleo gum resin of a number of Commiphora or dhidin species of trees

  Nakht: (Knock) Vizier at Armana

  Naos: (Nay.oos) Covered shelter in the middle of the boat

  Nefertiti: (Nef.er.tea.tea) She Who Walks In Harmony—the Per Aat of Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten

  NefernefruRa: (Nef.er.nay.fru.Ra) and Nefernefru: (Nef.er.knee.fru) the Younger—the two twin daughters of Nefertiti and Akhenaten

  Nekhbet: (Neck.bet) The Vulture Goddess

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bsp; Nemes headdress: (Nem.ease) The striped headcloth worn by pharaohs or Nemesa which means the sweet touch of the feminine

  Neter: (Net.er) A god or goddess. Also a neter is one of the senses. Ancient belief is that we used to have 360 senses awakened within us but devolved to having only five. An interdemensional gateway.

  Netri: (Net.tree) Merit-Aten’s pet name for her father, Akhenaten Nubia: (Neb.yah) The Precious Land—known for gold, silver and copper mines

  Oon: The third stage of the sun in early afternoon

  Opet Festival: A yearly Festival where the king renews his powers through the god Amun

  Orama: (Or.am.a) Title of the Chief High Priest of Heliopolis

  Oseirion: (Oh.sear.e.an) An ancient temple to Osiris built at Abydos

  Osiris: (Oh.sigh.rus) One of the ancient gods who was married to Isis and later killed and dismembered by his jealous brother Set

  Palanquin: (Pal.an.quinn) A vehicle or chair lifted by four carriers to transport Royalty or the elite.

  Pa-Nesy: Chief Servitor at Amarna—One of the Council of Twelve

  Papyrus: (Pa.pie.rus) A thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant. Cyperus papyrus is a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile.

  Parrenefer: (Pair.a.nef.er) Royal Cupbearer—one of the Council of Twelve and a trusted official of Akhenaten

  Pentu: (Pen.too) Chief Royal Physician for Queen Ti-Yee and Akhenaten and his family

  Per Aat: (Per.ah) The Queen of Egypt, the Greek translation means High House or Royal Palace and is the origin of the word Pharaoh

  Per Aat-in-waiting: The next in line to be the Queen of Egypt

  Per-Akh: A birthing house or House of Children

  Per-Ba: House of the Soul or Temple such as Luxor or Karnak

  Per-Hay: House of Rejoicing or Palace such as the Malkata Palace

  Per-Ka: House of Burial for the Astral body or spirit—a tomb or crypt for the Khat (body) to be placed

  Per-Nefer: House of Beauty or charnal house—where embalming took place

  Per-Neter: A pyramid, House of Energy or Nature, a pyramid to transform, transmit, utilize or transmit energy

  Per-Wir: Wise man and the site of the mystery schools

  Peshent Crown: (Pesh.ent) The peaked white oval headpiece of Upper Khemit, inside is a red chair symbolizing Lower Khemit

  Pharaoh: (Fair.o) The male King of Egypt and the origin of the word High House or Per Aat

  Ptah: (Pa.tah) God of Memphis

  Ptah-Mose: (Pa.tah Moez) The Vizier of Egypt, High Official of the Amun Priesthood

  Ra: The God of the Sun, the second stage of the sun at noon

  Ra-Awab: (Ra.A.wab) The son of the shipbuilder and the Chief of Imports and one of the class of initiates

  Ra-Nefer: The Overseer of new initiates at Heliopolis

  Ra-Mesu: (Ra.Mee.su) The General under Queen Ti-Yee and Amunhotep III

  Rennutet: (Ren.u.tet) The frail Babylonian girl in the class of initiates Royal Ornaments: The derogatory term for the other foreign wives of Amunhotep III

  Sarawat: (Sar.ah.wa) The girl who honked like a goose and one of the initiates, daughter of the Royal Wigmaker

  Scarab: (Scare.ab) The black beetle that pushes the dung ball

  Scrying: (Scree.ing) The art of seeing the future by using a reflective image such as a mirror, water or black obsidian

  Sekhmet: (Sec.met) The Lion Headed Goddess of Memphis whose wrath and fury made people fear her. She is also the other half of Hathor, the Daughter of Ra and consort to Ptah.

  Sesh: Meaning the people of Khemit or a clay vessel. The 12 tribes that were part of the original 42 tribes are known as the Sesh.

  Set: The brother of Osiris who killed and dismembered him

  Set-te-pent: The mother of Rennutet

  Set-te-pen-Ra: The youngest daughter of Nefertiti

  Shemati: (Shem.ma.tea) The Radiant One, a term of endearment for Pharaoh Akhenaten

  Shemtiu Ma’ati: (Shem.too Ma.aht.tea) Golden cobra meaning the alignment of the adornment of the rays on the Garment of Light

  Shenti: (Shen.tea) The Spiritual Mysteries and path to understanding the Trinity and the creation of the universe

  Sistra: (Sis.tra) A singular copper musical device with small cymbals to rattle in praise of the Aten. Plural Sistrum.

  Sit-Amun: (Sit.Ah.moon) The sister of Pharaoh Amunhotep III who became his Royal Chief Wife—aunt to Akhenaten

  Skhet-Aaru: (Sec.ket Ar.roo) The realm of Supreme Peace and abode of Osiris

  Smenkhkare: (Smen.car.ray) The Harpist’s son and son of Amunhotep III, one of the class of initiates

  Solar Disk: The symbol for the Aten with hands extending in ankhs

  Solar Temple: A temple in alignment with the solar configurations such as Heliopolis

  Soul Reflection: Where an initiate views their own death

  Spikenard oil: (Spike.nard) The (underground stems) or rhizomes can be crushed and distilled into an intensely aromatic, thick amber-colored essential oil

  Stellar Temple: A temple in alignment with the stellar configurations such as Sirius and Pleiades

  Tadukhepa: (Ta.du.kep.a) Daughter of a Mitannian King given to Amunhotep III as a Lesser Wife

  Tadushet: (Tad.u.shea) One of the class initiates in the Mystery School

  Tefnut: (Tef.noot) Aten Priestess of the Aten Temple

  Thebes: (Theebs) Capitol city of Amun in Upper Egypt

  Tithe: (Tie.the) A monthly fee collected by the Amun priesthood from the Egyptian citizens

  Titi: (Tea Tea) Egyptian word for baby steps

  Tiy: (Tea) The consort of Ay and Nefertiti’s step-mother

  Ti-Yee: (Tye.yee) Translates to She Is The One—Queen of Egypt, Second Chief Wife of Amunhotep III, mother to Akhenaten

  Tripartite wig: (Try.part.tight) A wig divided into three parts. Two parts extended behind the ears and down the sides of the face to the front of the body as far as the breasts. A third part went down the back as far as the shoulder blades.

  Tushratta: (Toosh.ra.ta) King of Mitanni

  Tutankhaten: (Toot.ankh.e.naten) His given name when he was born in Amarna, later became Pharaoh Tut-ankh-Amun