entities: ENT_EGY_DECANS

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_EGY_DECANS The Decans (Egyptian decanal system) δεκανοί Egyptian Astronomical collective Star-clock deities the 36 decanal stars; the star-clock; the 10-day week   national   A candidate_verified_name coffin star-clocks; astronomical ceilings 0 0 0 The system of 36 stars/star-groups rising at ten-day intervals that ruled the Egyptian decades and divided the night into hours, attested on Middle Kingdom coffin star-clocks and the astronomical ceilings of Senenmut, Seti I, and Dendera. (Individual decan readings are largely contested, so represented as the system; later received into Hellenistic astrology as the dekanoi.) collective

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