GrainBeerBreadIncenseHonouring the ancestorsA first harvest sheaf
Invocation Approach
Tone
Ancient and measured
Address
AndjetyLord of DjeduAncient One
Relationship
The old king in the ground before Osiris had the name
Warning
His rites have been absorbed what answers is often Osiris with an older crown
Resonance
Those working with ancestors and old sovereignty
Symbols
CrookFlailFeathered crownDjed pillar
Mythology Summary
Andjety is one of the oldest Egyptian gods, the local god of Andjet — Djedu, which the Greeks called Busiris — in the ninth nome of Lower Egypt, shown with the crook and flail and the tall feathered crown that became the atef. Osiris absorbed him almost completely: by the Pyramid Texts of the later Old Kingdom Osiris is called 'Lord of Djedu' and wears Andjety's regalia, so that Andjety survives chiefly as the ancestor of Osiris's iconography. The Pyramid Texts also identify the dead king with Andjety in his ascent, which shows how old the claim is; the myth that went with him does not survive.
Modern Practice
Andjety is worked with in ancestor practice and in the reclaiming of old sovereignty — the founding figure behind an inherited authority. The practice is the offering to the dead and the naming of who came before.