Apedemak
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Apedemak Jprmk |
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Apedemak P3-Jr-mkt The protector |
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Apedemak is a Nubian god of war and fertility. He was often depicted as a person with a lion head, carrying a bow and quiver. On the back wall of the lion temple in Naqa , Apedemak can be seen with three lion heads and four human arms. In Naqa he also appears entirely in the form of a lion's head, a human upper body and snake abdomen rising from a lotus flower . On his head sit horizontal ram horns, which are part of a hemhem crown , consisting of three bundles of shields on which three sun discs sit, laterally bordered by two ostrich feathers and two urea, which carry sun discs on their heads, partly in connection with double spring crowns.
Apedemak symbolized the destructive and creative forces at the same time. He also took on the role of a "crown god". His most important temples were built in the Butana region , more precisely in Meroe , Aborepi and Tolkte . The oldest sanctuary in Aboreti was built by the Nubian king Arnekhamani in the years 235-210 BC. Built in BC. The divine companion of Apedemak is Amesemi .
See also
literature
- Inge Hoffmann: The Meroitic Religion: Apedemak . In: Hildegard Temporini: Rise and Fall of the Roman World. Part 1: From the beginnings of Rome to the end of the republic . De Gruyter, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-001885-3 , pp. 2819-2825.
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG , vol. 1 . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 2-87723-644-7 , pp. 221-222.
- Piotr O. Scholz: Nubia - the mysterious gold country of the Egyptians . Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1885-5 , p. 152.
- Dietrich Wildung , Jürgen Liepe: Sudan - Ancient Kingdoms on the Nile . Ernst Wasmuth Verlag GmbH & Co., Tübingen, 1996, ISBN 3-8030-3084-6 , pp. 266-269, 278 f.
