Abstrakt
Two Utterances of the Pyramid Texts (PT 363, § 607 and PT 476, § 952) mention a deity called Weneg. Thanks to these references his roles are quite clear.
He is attested only in the Old Kingdom period and only in the written sources. However, one particular piece of evidence of him could be dated back to he Early Dynastic Period, but it is rather speculative.
Some scholars believe that isolated references for Weneg can be found in the Middle Kingdom as well, but also in this case it is difficult to be proved. It is also important to stress out that no depictions of the god exist.
The name of the god Weneg is determined with various hieroglyphic signs of plants. One of the hieroglyphs is quite obscure.
It is a depiction of a special plant called the wng-plant. The exact species of the plant remains yet to be identified.
In this paper the evidence for the god Weneg will be presented and special attention will be paid to the problematic references. It will also be tried to explain why the sources are almost exclusively limited to the Old Kingdom.
The most important part of the paper will be an attempt to identify the wng-plant, which could help us reveal the connection of Weneg to the sun cult.