Hapi (Egyptian mythology)

Hapi has been documented as a divine manifestation of the Nile flood since the Middle Kingdom . Mostly he appeared iconographically as a standing androgynous deity with papyrus plants in his hands. Hapi did not enjoy a cult of his own , but was always worshiped in association with other deities.

The daughter Sat-Hapi was self -generating . Hapi has been reborn every year since the 19th dynasty ( New Kingdom ) by Amun , who also embodies the Urocean in a symbiosis : The body of Amun is Nun; what's in it is Hapi .

In connection with Osiris it says: Hapi was created on the borders of the earth, he sacrifices Osiris as the great flood, pulls out the plants, lets the withered turn green and breaks through the dams during the flood period .

literature

Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 .
Adriaan de Buck : On the Meaning of the Name H'pj. In: Orientalia Neederlandica. A Volume of Oriental Studies. Sijthoff, Leiden 1948, pp. 1-22.
Erik Hornung : The One and the Many. Egyptian ideas of God. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1971, pp. 42, 70, 101, 139, 273.
Christian Leitz among others: LGG . Volume 5: Ḥ - ḫ (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. [OLA] 114). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1150-6 , pp. 43-48.
Matthieu Sybrand Huibert Gerard Heerma van Voss: De Oudste Versie van Dodenboek 17a. Coffin Texts Spreuk 335a. Groen, Leiden 1963, p. 51 (also: Leiden University, dissertation, 1963).

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