sw bꜣn

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning malefic planet
Literal translation evil star
Variants
ⲥⲟⲩⲃⲱⲛ Old Coptic
sw bꜣn
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malefic planet astrological concept

Describes the inherent quality of a planet

⌈wpy⌉ nꜣ sw.w bꜣn.w | ỉrm nꜣ sw.w nfr.w ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ ḥr-tšy pꜣ-rꜥ nꜣ sw.w bꜣn.w nꜣ.w ḥr-pꜣ-šty nṯr-tꜣy sbkꜣ nꜣ sw.w nfr.w nꜣ.w

‘Listing the malefic stars | and the benefic stars: Saturn, Mars, and the Sun are the malefic stars; Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury are the benefic stars.’

— P.Carlsberg 81

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Tebtunis
Date: 2nd cent. CE

Winkler, A. 2016. Some Astrologers and their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian. In The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World, ed. J. M. Steele. Leiden: Brill: ### 258

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw bꜣn (Lemma #319). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/319/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw bꜣn (Lemma #319). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/319/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw bꜣn (Lemma #319). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/319/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) sw bꜣn (Lemma #319), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/319/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac319,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {sw bꜣn ({Lemma} #319)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/319/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/319/},
}