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| God Ash |
God Ash was God of the western Desert of Egypt accepting the breeding oases, and of Tehenu or Libya, first old on sealings from the
Early Dynastic Period. Although his dominion is in what the Ancient Egyptians addressed the Red Land (Deshret) as opposed to the crop-bearing silt up of the Black Land (Kemet) marching the River Nile itself, Ash is not an foreigner or a deity of alien origins. He masters the get of the oases in favor of the pharaoh gone archaeology in the Egyptian western Desert has read how the Egyptian monarch savored the prosperity of its senior fertile depressions. Ash also had ties with vineries in the western Egyptian Nile Delta.
His work is normally anthropomorphic as attested, e.g. in a backup from a temple of
King Sahura (
Dynasty V). He can as well be showed with the head of a hawk. As master of the desert an plain identification was made between Ash and Seth as early as
Dynasty II. This connexion was main because Ash, it would seem, was the original god of Ombos in Upper Egypt before the reaching of Seth as its major deity so an epithet of Ash being nebuty or he of Nebut.
