Harpare
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Har (pa) re Ḥr-Rʿ Horus - Re / Re-Horus |
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Harpare (actually Re-Hor , Hor-Re ) is the Greek name of a deity in Egyptian mythology , which has been documented since the New Kingdom and represents a variant of Horus .
Mythological connections
In the New Kingdom and the Late Period , the name “Hor-pa-Re”, Greek “Harpare”, is unknown. During that period, Harpare appears as "Hor-Re", which is why the correct translation for this period is to be given as Horus - Re .
In the New Kingdom, the name of Harpare on a statue in Medamud may also be read as Re-Horus . It was not until the Greco-Roman period that the spelling as harpare was added. In a ritual scene from the Greco-Roman period it says: The king makes the sky far away for Harpare . The cult of Hor-pa-Re-pa-chered , the manifestation of Harpare as a child god, which has only been documented since the late period, is much more extensive .
Representations
Iconographic representations of the Harpare are first attested in the late period , for example in the Hibis Temple as a standing falcon-headed god, optionally with a sun disk on his head.
In the Greco-Roman times, its form of representation changed to a falcon-headed lion with cattle horns lying on a pedestal , on whose head an upright cobra can be seen.
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Helck , Harpare , In: Wolfgang Helck: Lexikon der Ägyptologie , Volume 2, Sp. 1003, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977.
- Hans Bonnet : Har-p-re , in: Lexikon der ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte , Hamburg 2000 ISBN 3-937872-08-6 p. 275.
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG , Vol. 5: Ḥ - ḫ - Series of publications: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta; 114 - . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1150-6 , p. 271.