Irer

{{short description|Ancient Egyptian deity}}

{{Infobox deity

| type = Egyptian

| name = Irer

| image = Irer god.svg

| caption = Irer was depicted as a man with the hieroglyph for eye above his head

| hiero = D4 A40

}}

{{Ancient Egyptian religion}}

Irer was an ancient Egyptian god who, along with Sedjem, join Hu and Sia as creative powers of the gods.{{Cite book |last=Hornung |first=Erik |url=https://archive.org/details/conceptionsofgod0000horn/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Conceptions of God in ancient Egypt : the one and the many |date=1982 |publisher=Ithaca : Cornell University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8014-1223-3 |pages=76}} Irer, which translates as "sight,"{{Cite book |last=Hannig |first=Rainer |title=Grosses Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch (2800-950 v. Chr.): die Sprache der Pharaonen |date=1995 |publisher=P. von Zabern |isbn=978-3-8053-1771-9 |series=Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt |location=Mainz |pages=1191 |language=de}} first appears as a scribe, alongside Sedjem, for Thoth and Seshat in the temples of Seti I and Ramesses II at Abydos.