Sedjem

{{short description|Ancient Egyptian deity}}

{{Infobox deity

| type = Egyptian

| name = Sedjem

| image = Sedjem god.svg

| caption = Sedjem was depicted as a man with the hieroglyph for ear of a bovine above his head

| hiero = F21 A40

}}

{{Ancient Egyptian religion}}

Sedjem (sḏm) was an ancient Egyptian god who, along with Irer, 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}} Sedjem, which literally translates to "hearing,"{{Cite book |last=Hannig |first=Rainer |title=Grosses Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch: die Sprache der Pharaonen (2800 - 950 v. Chr.) |date=2009 |publisher=von Zabern |isbn=978-3-8053-1771-9 |edition= |series= |location=Mainz |pages=1242}} first appeared as a scribe for Thoth and Seshat in the temples of Seti I and Ramesses II at Abydos.