English Dictionary

Bennu

固有名詞

国籍形容詞 頻度副詞 定冠詞付き

(Egyptian mythology, often with "the") A self-created deity with the form of a bird (in New Kingdom artwork, a heron) that features in the ancient Egyptian creation myth and is also described as the ba (soul) of Ra.

日本語の意味

エジプト神話において、自己創生した鳥の姿をした神を指す名称。新王国時代の描写ではサギのような姿を持ち、創造神話に登場し、ラの魂（ba）としても解釈される。

The archaeologist carefully brushed dust from the ancient relief, revealing a faded image of Bennu rising from the solar barque.

考古学者は古いレリーフの埃を慎重に払いのけると、太陽の船から立ち上がる自ら生まれた鷺の姿をした創造神の色あせた像が現れた。

意味（1）

(Egyptian mythology, often with "the") A self-created deity with the form of a bird (in New Kingdom artwork, a heron) that features in the ancient Egyptian creation myth and is also described as the ba (soul) of Ra.

One compound name, of which it is an element, is that of the city, from which the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile was denominated Sebennu, that is, the temple of Bennu, a god, who was represented in the form of a waterfowl, and whose phonetic name is of frequent occurrence.

意味（2）

(astronomy) The near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu.

Osiris-Rex’s arrival at Bennu was not like the landing of NASA’s InSight spacecraft in one piece on the surface of Mars last Monday. (Happily, it landed flawlessly.)