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The Prince and the Sphinx
There was once a Prince in Egypt called Thutmose, who was a son of Pharaoh Amenhotep, and the grandson of Thutmose III who succeeded the great Queen Hatshepsut. He had many brothers and half-brothers, and because he was Pharaoh’s favorite … Continue reading
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Tagged apis, double crown, god, great god, heliopolis, hep, pharaohs, shed, son, sun
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Nefertem – Lord of the Sunrise
The Egyptian pantheon is a particularly huge and fluid one, with a wide array of deities floating in and out of one another’s myths. Because of the vast quantity and because of limitations of space, collections of mythology are forced … Continue reading
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Tagged Egypt, egyptian god, egyptian gods, god, lotus, myth, nefertem, sun
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Mehen – Defender of the Sun Boat
Appearance: A serpent-headed man holding a spear, standing in the prow of the Sun Boat, or as a giant snake coiled around it. In the Old Kingdom and in predynastic literature, Mehen, along with Set in his original form, fights … Continue reading
Male Child Gods of Egypt
Male child deities in ancient Egypt overlapped considerably in both their mythology and worship. Sometimes they were worshiped in both their forms as children and adults, though that was rare. They usually were the male children of major deities, and … Continue reading
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Tagged amun, child of Hathor, cow, cow goddess, Egypt, god, hathor, horus, ihy, Kingdom, neferhetep, nefertem, Osiris, ptah, serpent, shed, son of isis, son of osiris, sun, sun god, war
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Kephri – The Great Scarab
The word kheper means scarab, and as the animal was associated with life and rebirth, so was Khepri. The scarab lays its eggs in a ball of dung and rolls it to hide in a safe place. From this unlikely … Continue reading
Khentykhety
This rather obscure god is little known about. He was the main deity of the 10th nome (“Black Bull”) and its capital Athribis in Lower Egypt. He was linked to the falcon, bull and crocodile and the first two were … Continue reading
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Tagged crocodile, falcon, hieroglyphic texts, Khentykhety, king amenhotep iii, obscure god, sobek, sun, tradition
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