Aker guards the Akhet in his double-lion form, his two heads watching east and west simultaneously to protect the sun's passage through the horizon at dawn and dusk.
Aker, the double-lion earth god, guards the eastern and western horizons through which Ra's solar barque enters and exits the Duat each night.
Each dawn, Ra emerged reborn as Khepri through Aker's eastern horizon gate, the scarab god pushing the newborn sun into the sky after its passage through the underworld.
Shu supported the sky above Aker's earthly body, with the air god holding Nut aloft while the double-lion god formed the terrestrial foundation upon which the solar cycle played out.
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