ꜥ.wy šy

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-18
Primary meaning House of Daimon
Literal translation House of Daimon
Variants
šy
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House of Daimon astrological house

5th astrological place

pꜣy-ms=w r pꜣ-nṯr-t(w)ꜣ n ꜥ.wy n. šy | r pꜣ rmṯ n rn=f r ỉr nfr r šy

‘The one who was born when Venus was in the House of Daimon, the mentioned man will be happy as to fate.’

— P.Berlin 8345

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos
Date: 1st cent. CE to 2nd cent. CE

Quack, J. F., 2008, Texte aus Ägypten: Demotische, magische und divinatorische Texte. In B. Janowski and B. Wilhelm (eds), Omina, Orakel, Rituale und Beschwörungen. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge 4. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.

pr.t nṯr.t pꜣ gnḥḏ | pꜣ šy pꜣ mꜣy

‘The Domain of the goddess: Cancer | The Daimon: Leo’

— O.Neugeb. 3 21-22

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Thebes
Date: 1st cent. CE

Neugebauer, O., 1943. Demotic Horoscopes, Journal of the American Oriental Society 63: 116-117 116-117

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy šy (Lemma #263). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/263/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy šy (Lemma #263). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/263/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy šy (Lemma #263). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/263/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ꜥ.wy šy (Lemma #263), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/263/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac263,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ꜥ.wy šy ({Lemma} #263)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/263/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/263/},
}