Amenti
/əˈmɛn.ti/noun
In ancient Egyptian religion, Amenti is the realm of the dead, commonly associated with the western land beyond the sunset.
Did you know?Amenti was linked with the western horizon because the sun’s daily setting was imagined as a passage into the realm of the dead.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Egyptian
Egyptian
ỉmntt
“The West; the western region, associated with sunset and the dead”
Ptolemaic Period
Greek
Amenti
“A Greek rendering of the Egyptian name for the underworld or western realm of the dead”
Late Antiquity
Coptic
Emnte
“The underworld or realm of the dead”
19th Century
English
Amenti
“A name for the Egyptian underworld adopted into English Egyptological and occult writing”
Modern English
English
Amenti
“The Egyptian land of the dead, often described as lying in the West”
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