Akhty

No cosmogonic or narrative origin story for Akhty is preserved in the cited sources. The deity is first attested on stone vessel inscriptions from the reign of the 2nd dynasty pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy and appears in subsequent early dynastic records; an Egyptological interpretation (Wolfgang Helck) proposes Akhty functioned as a dynasty or ancestor god, but this is a scholarly view rather than a recorded mythic account.

Akhty is depicted as a northern bald ibis, frequently accompanied by the hieroglyphic determinative Netjer ("god"). Specific attestations include the bird depiction on objects such as the statue of the priest Redjit and on early dynastic stone vessel inscriptions. The ibis form and the presence of the Netjer-sign together identify the figure as a deity linked to the Egyptian concept akh.

The sources describe Akhty as associated with the evening horizon and the akh: he was believed to guide the setting sun at dusk and to carry or escort the spirit of the deceased safely into the night sky. These functions are reconstructed from theonymic elements, iconography (the glittering/stellar quality of the ibis' plumage), and funerary/astral symbolism rather than from preserved ritual formulas or narrative episodes.