Introduction
This is Neferirkare as he appears within the Papyrus Westcar's literary frame: the youngest of three sons fathered directly by the god Ra on the priest's wife Reddjedet.
Family
- Father: Ra (as king)
- Mother: Reddjedet
- Siblings: Sahure (as told in the Westcar tale), Shu (as king), Userkaf (as told in the Westcar tale)
Youngest of the Divine Triplets
Neferirkare completes the trio of sons whose births the Westcar tale uses to explain, in mythic terms, the historical succession of Egypt's early 5th Dynasty kings as a divinely willed transition rather than an ordinary dynastic change.
This article records a specific literary or theological role — a king-list entry, a court tale, or a royal legitimation narrative — rather than the deity's or ruler's fuller religious identity, which (where applicable) is covered in the separate Egyptian Pantheon project.