Kherty (Apath)

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Death that lives on the heart of men

Kherty appears as a mummified ram, a man with the head of a ram, or a mummified or skeletal body with the skeletal head of a ram.

Kherty is on one hand the one that slaughters and the guardian of the soul. Depicted devouring human hearts while preserving the soul through mummification, Kherty is the god of undeath and eternal unlife. He also has an aspect as a god of herdsmen and the slaughter that brings life.

Kherty was a god of rulership and the earth in the North River in the very earliest history of Erypt. In this ancient kindgom, there came to be a war between the earth, represented by Kherty, and the sky represented by Ra. Kherty seduced the first line of pharaos and became the god of kings, but the other gods intervened and changed the route of the River Sphinx, causing it to take a new course and condemning the kingdom of Kherty to starvation. Most of the people fled trough the desert to the new land, but the most faithful stayed. The god took his subjects into his hand and turned them all into undead; the lowest peons becoming skeletons and the higher ranks gaining correspondingly more powerful undead forms. This River of Death endures as an undead realm to this day.

Leave your heart in tribute, and Kherty will grant you life eternal.

Kherty is still worshiped as a herding god and protector of the dead, and propitiated as a god of famine and undeath. His temples are secret affairs in hidden locations or old tombs frequented by the undead, but he has altars among other funerary gods and in the temples of Osiris. His main enemy is Anubis and Bastet, but he is also a fierce enemy of Apis and Set as gods of entropy..

Alignment: LE god of herds, slaughter, and undeath.

Weapon: Kukri (slaughter knife).

Symbol: Rams horns, or hieroglyph thereof, or ram-horned skull.

Pathfinder Traits

Animal, Death (Undead), Earth, Evil (Cannibalism, Kyton), Law (Kyton, Slavery).

External Links

• Kherty at Wikipedia.