Ipet-em-pet

Ipet-em-pet , also Opet-em-pet ("Ipet in the sky") represented the "hippopotamus goddess" Ipet as the constellation " Hippopotamus with the crocodile on her back " and Ipet-weret , Nut , Reret , Reret- weret , Tefnut and Isis . of the decorations on the ceilings of the royal tombs of the New Kingdom .

cult

Map of the constellation of Ipet-em-pet

In Esna she is mentioned in texts as the patroness of the constellation “ Great Bear (Seth) ” and enters into a symbiosis with him in her function as the hippo goddess: “The great bear ( Msḫtyw ) is under her supervision, without her arm from him solves forever. "

In the text Esna 400 , Ipet-em-pet is explicitly invoked as "Isis of heaven": "Isis as the hippopotamus is the one who ties the bull's thigh (Seth) in the northern sky in order not to allow it to sink into the duat ."

In the Zodiac of Dendera is Ipet-em-pet also shown.

literature

Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of Egyptian gods and names of gods - Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 110, Vol. 1 ³ to y - , Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1146-8 .
Alexandra von Lieven : The sky over Esna - A case study on religious astronomy in Egypt using the example of the cosmological ceiling and architrave inscriptions in the temple of Esna . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04324-5 , p. 24.

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The zodiac in Dendera

Remarks

↑ Writing from the Greco-Roman period ; see. in addition Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of Egyptian gods and names of gods - Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 110, Vol. 1 ³ to y - , Peeters, Leuven 2002, p. 219.

[1] Writing from the Greco-Roman period ; see. in addition Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of Egyptian gods and names of gods - Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 110, Vol. 1 ³ to y - , Peeters, Leuven 2002, p. 219.