Hapi (Horus son)

Hapi in hieroglyphics

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Hapi was one of the four sons of Horus and canopic gods who protected the mummified entrails. His parents are the god "Horus the Elder" ( Haroeris ) and the goddess Isis .

presentation

Grave figure of Hapy

Hapi has been depicted with a human head from the Middle Kingdom to the 18th Dynasty , and since the New Kingdom mostly with a baboon head. But there are also depictions that show him as a corpulent man with a lily crown or a papyrus plant.

Importance as the patron god of the canopi

Together with the three other Horus sons Amset , Duamutef and Kebechsenuef, he protected the mummified entrails. He was responsible for protecting the lungs, and in the Middle Kingdom also protecting the spleen.

Meaning in mythology

The pyramid texts already name Hapi as the patron god of the dead and their helper in ascending to heaven. Hapi is called via the inscriptions on the canopic jugs and the associated canopic boxes. In the Osiris cycle , Hapi, like the other sons of Horus, is “one of the hour watch on the corpse of Osiris”. He is the patron god of the second hour of the day and the second night, of whom it is said at both times: "Hapi comes to see you, he throws down your enemies before you." According to mythology , he became of Horus like his siblings appointed as guardians of the cardinal points and sent to the north as a coronation messenger. Hapi is also a star god. He frequently appears with Nephthys , who embodies the vessel and is his patron goddess. The cult place of Hapi was Buto . In the later days he was associated with the heart.

literature

Mary Barnett: Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt. Gondrom, 1998, ISBN 3-8112-1646-5 .
Hans Bonnet : Hapi , in: Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , pp. 268f.
Rolf Felde: Egyptian deities . 2nd expanded and improved edition, R. Felde Eigenverlag, Wiesbaden 1995.
Lucia Gahlin: Egypt: Gods, Myths, Religions. Edition XXL, ISBN 3-89736-312-7 .
Veronica Ions: The Great Religions of the World - Gods, Myths and Legends. Book and World, 1988.
Manfred Lurker : Lexicon of the gods and symbols of the ancient Egyptians. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-502-16430-4 .

Web links

Commons : Hapi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Rolf Felde: Egyptian gods. Wiesbaden 1995, p. 19.
^ Günther Roeder : Documents on the religion of ancient Egypt. Diederichs, Jena 1923, pp. 35, 40.

[Felde19-1] Rolf Felde: Egyptian gods. Wiesbaden 1995, p. 19.

[2] Günther Roeder : Documents on the religion of ancient Egypt. Diederichs, Jena 1923, pp. 35, 40.