Kherty

**Kherty**


 * Other Names:**

Cherti


 * Meaning of Name:**

“Lower One”

Kherty was an Egyptian god of the Duat and ferryman of the dead. As an earth-god he also acted as a guardian of the pharaoh’s tomb. Kherty was depicted as a man with the head of a ram, or as a ram. In rare instances he was pictured as a bull or lion.


 * Outside of Egypt:**

It is considered a possibility that his cult caused the development of the myth of the ferryman in other Mediterranean mythologies, such as that of the Greek Charon.

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