Hor-Semataui-pa-chered
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Hor-Semataui-pa-chered Ḥr-Sm3-t3wj-p3-ḫrd Harsomtus, the child |
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Hor-Semataui-pa-chered (also Harsomtus-pa-chered ) is an ancient Egyptian deity, a designation of Harsomtus as a child of Hor-Behdeti ( Horus von Edfu ), who was first documented as an independent child god in the Greco-Roman times .
iconography
Mammisi from Edfu
His iconographic attributes in the Mammisi of Edfu are:
- Naked child with youth curl and finger on mouth
- Naked child with youth curls and drooping arms.
- Enthroned God with a double crown and youth lock.
- Naked child with double crown and finger on mouth.
Other representations outside of Edfu's Mammisis
- Naked child god with youth lock, finger on the mouth, hemhem crown and Nemes headscarf , optionally with a menit or sistrum in hand.
- In a cloak on a pedestal standing naked child god with the double crown, youth lock and finger on the mouth
- Falcon-shaped god with a double crown.
- With atef crown or deed crown or amun feather crown as well as with a Chepresch crown and youth curl and sun disk on the head. On either side of the crowns were snakes , ostrich feathers and other lion-headed urea .
- Naked child with youth curl and finger on mouth standing in a bark on a lotus flower or holding a menhit in the left hand, rarer than besfiguren .
Mythological connections
Hor-Semataui-pa-chered was the newborn child of gods, whom gods and men are supposed to see with his crown, as he appears before his father Horus of Edfu . He was also heir to the Hor-Behdeti.
See also
literature
- 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. 289.
- Sandra Sandri: Har-Pa-Chered (Harpokrates): The genesis of an Egyptian god child (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 151) . Peeters, Leuven 2006, ISBN 90-429-1761-X .