Upuaut
| Upuaut in hieroglyphics | ||||||
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Upuaut / Wep-wawet Wp-w3wt Opener of the ways |
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Upuaut , also called Wepwawet , Wep-wawet or Ophois , German: "Opener of the ways", was worshiped as the Egyptian god of war and death .
Mythological connections
Upuaut's attributes of bow and club indicate his warlike character. In pictures, Upuaut leads the royal pageant; and the Osiris strides ahead of the wolf-like God. This is why this deity opened up the paths in the hereafter (the Duat ) for the dead in the Egyptians .
He shared his portrayal as a jackal or a wolf with black fur with Anubis, among others . Upuaut is shown mainly standing, less often lying down. It often appears in the form of a standing jackal on the bow of the dead boat . Images in hibis show him as a standing man with a jackal head. The Greeks , who called him Ophois , interpreted him as a wolf and called the center of his cult Lycopolis .
reception
Upuaut and Upuaut-2 are named after Upuaut , robots equipped with a camera and spotlights by the Munich engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink , which were used in 1993 to investigate the Cheops pyramid in the two shafts of the Queen's Chamber.
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 .
- Rolf Felde: Egyptian deities. 2nd expanded and improved edition, R. Felde Eigenverlag, Wiesbaden 1995, p. 67.
- Manfred Lurker : Lexicon of the gods and symbols of the ancient Egyptians. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-502-16430-4 .
- Richard H. Wilkinson : The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Faith - Power - Mythology. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1819-6 , pp. 192-193.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the trail of the secrets of the Cheops pyramid, Neue Zürcher Zeitung online, September 17, 2002 (accessed December 27, 2009)
- ↑ Graves for Eternity, WELT ONLINE, May 12, 2002 (accessed December 27, 2009)