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Aker
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- Egyptian mythology
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- religion of ancient Egypt
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- A-k:r-E20
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SymbolHorizon Aker was an ancient Egyptian personification of the horizon, and an earth and underworld god, believed to guard the eastern (Bakhu) and western (Manu) horizons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.