mšy wḥm

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning repeating movement
Literal translation repeating movement
Variants
mšy wḥm
Edited by
repeating movement verb of motion

Refers to planetary movement

r ḥꜣ|.ṱ⸗y šlf | n-tr.ṱ|⸗k mny sp-sn.w ỉw=y | ỉr r tw=y ḥp|ḥ(p) ỉw=y pl|ḏ ḏmꜥ ỉw=y qty| n-ỉm=y m-sꜣ nꜣy m|šy wḥm ỉw=y | ḥpḥ(p) ỉrm (ḥr-pꜣ)-šwṱ | ḥtr.w

‘I was ashamed because of you daily. I was disturbed. I unrolled (the) papyrus roll. I searched the repeated movement (of planets) and I was disturbed with Jupiter in Gemini.’

— OMM 75 1-12

Genre: school text
Provenance: Narmouthis
Date: 2nd cent. CE

A. Menchetti, Un aperçu des textes astrologiques de Medinet Madi, in G. Widmer and D. Devauchelle, eds., Actes du IXe Congrès International des Études Démotiques: Paris, 31 août - 3 septembre 2005; Paris, 2009, 223-241. 232-233

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). mšy wḥm (Lemma #814). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/814/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). mšy wḥm (Lemma #814). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/814/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). mšy wḥm (Lemma #814). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/814/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) mšy wḥm (Lemma #814), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/814/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac814,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mšy wḥm ({Lemma} #814)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/814/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/814/},
}