Horus Junmutef
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Horus Iunmutef (Hor-Iun-mutef) Ḥr.w-Jwn-mw.t = f Horus , the pillar of his mother |
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Horus Iunmutef is an ancient Egyptian dead deity under Sety first time with the Gottesdeterminativ is provided. The worship of Junmutef as Horus, however, goes back to the Old Kingdom . His function as “opener of the ways” is also documented early in the title Sa-meref and refers to his divine activity of the “family pillar” as a young Horus von Chemmis towards his mother Isis in her exile in Chemmis .
background
Equations
Some Egyptologists , for example Hans Bonnet and Hermann Kees , saw a merging of Iunmutef with Geb to form the new deity Geb-Iunmutef. This assumption was based on a wrong interpretation of a sacrificial formula of Junmutef in the temple of Semna , in which the deity Geb is only mentioned as a favored deity after more detailed investigations and Junmutef acts as the speaker of the sacrificial ritual.
Even the assumption that Horus Junmutef is a fused deity can no longer be confirmed at present. By adding the divine determinative, an independent deity was created.
Manifestations
The iconographic representation of Horus Iunmutef only slowly emerged during the Ramesside period , when Horus Iunmutef appeared as a falcon-headed person with a goddess apron and double crown. The earliest evidence of this manifestation can be found in the 20th Dynasty in the temple of Ramses III. in Medinet Habu .
In the Abydos - Stele of . Ramses IV of the god Horus Iunmutef is mentioned without the name part Horus only Iunmutef because the characteristics of Horus in conjunction with Iunmutef with the insignia of the Panther Fells and the lock of youth may be displayed when performing sacrifices. In these iconographic forms, Iunmutef wears the Horus falcon on his head.
See also
literature
- Jan Assmann : Stone and Time. Man and Society in Ancient Egypt. Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-2681-3 .
- Émile Chassinat: La seconde trouvaille de Deir el-Bahari. Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 1909, plates V – VI.
- Siegried Schott : The memorial stone Seti I for the Chapel of Ramses I in Abydos. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1964.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Bonnet: Lexicon of the Egyptian Religious History (former title: "Reallexikon der Ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte") . Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 325.
- ↑ Hermann Kees: The priesthood in the Egyptian state from the new kingdom to the late period . Brill, Leiden 1953; Pp. 151 and 336.
- ^ Cairen coffin CG 6016.