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Go Gḥs The Dorkas Gazelle |
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Gehes is the ancient Egyptian word for Dorcas gazelle .
Mythological connections
Tefnut can appear as a Dorcas gazelle. In the report of the demotic papyrus The Homecoming of the Goddess , Tefnut assumed the shape of a Dorcas gazelle on her return to Egypt as a " Nubian cat" in the Thebes area :
“When she (Tefnut) reached Thebes with the monkey ( Thoth ), she turned into a Dorkas gazelle and the monkey paid homage to her. It happened ... when the monkey woke her and she jumped with him on the ferry, it happened when he (Thoth) was on the ferry, when she thought of the words of the little dog monkey. She convinced herself and praised him and said: "Do [these things] in Thebes". This is how the same things are done in Thebes to this day, [...] that you let meet on the ferry on the shore while you sing to her to soothe her. She came to Egypt while she was hot. In Thebes they celebrate a festival in their name from seven days to the present day. "
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In an inscription on the Hathor kiosk in the temple of Philae , Gehes is also referred to as "The Dorkas Gazelle of the desert " and "the great and magnificent one of Bugem (Schepset-aat-net-Bugem)". This additional epithet was also used by Tefnut as a Nubian cat in the myth The Homecoming of the Goddess .
See also
literature
- Friedhelm Hoffmann , Joachim Friedrich Quack : Anthology of demotic literature ( introductions and source texts on Egyptology 4). LIT, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-8258-0762-2 .
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . Volume 1 (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Volume 110). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1146-8 , p. 324.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedhelm Hoffmann, Joachim Friedrich Quack: Anthology of demotic literature . Pp. 226-227.