Buchis

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Buchis is the holy bull of Hermonthis (Armant) and Medamud in the 4th Upper Egyptian Was-Zepter-Gau and is depicted with a black head and white body.

history

Before Buchis was called a bull since the 11th dynasty , in Armant he was a very early form of the god Month , or a living image of this local deity. Furthermore, it was considered a manifestation of the Re . In Medamut he was an oracle animal . The worship of this animal was one of three great ancient Egyptian bull cults . In the 30th Dynasty the following names were also used for Buchis: "The glorious soul", "Soul and corpse" and "The sublime bull, the noble great one".

Finds

A burial place for the Buchis bulls was located in Armant: the so-called Bucheum , which dates back to the 30th dynasty and is now destroyed.

See also

literature

  • Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd, unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 .
  • Rolf Felde: Egyptian deities. 2nd expanded and improved edition, R. Felde Eigenverlag, Wiesbaden 1995.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Felde: Egyptian gods. Wiesbaden 1995, p. 12.