Khenti-kheti

Khenti-kheti
Khenti-kheti as a crocodile headed man with horns and a Pschent
Name in hieroglyphs
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Khenti-kheti could depicted as a crocodile-headed man with horns wearing a Pschent (left) or as a falcon-headed man wearing a sun-disk on his head and forward bull horns (right), there were many more forms he could also be depicted as.

In Egyptian mythology, Khenti-kheti (also spelt Chenti-cheti), was a crocodile-god, though he was later represented as a falcon-god. His name means "foremost retreater".

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