Ha

deity underworld Egyptian single tradition · 3

Ha was a god of the Western Desert and the fertile oasis of Western Desert of Egypt in ancient Egyptian religion. He was associated with the Duat (the underworld) and pictured as a man wearing the hieroglyph symbol for desert hills on his head. Ha was said to protect Egypt from enemies such as invading ancient Libyans.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 2020
Historical notes
Ancient Egyptian deity attested in the religious texts and iconography of pharaonic Egypt.

Relationships

allied with
Set, Heng
child of
Iaaw

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Sources

Source passages

“at first he was the god of fertility, son of an almost unknown deity named Iaaw, but in the later period of Egypt, he took his place by removing the western desert god Ash...The ancient Egyptians saw him as a guardian deity of the pharaoh”

#24020 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Ha – A god of the Libyan Desert and oases west of Egypt”

#24844 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Heng and Ha”

#45666 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free