Ipet-weret

Ipet-weret , also Opet-weret ("The Great Harem Goddess") has been known as the birth goddess Ipi-weret since the Old Kingdom and had mythological connections to the third Upper Egyptian Gau in the early days .

In the Middle and New Kingdom, Ipet-weret was most venerated in Thebes . Especially in the Greco-Roman period , Ipet-weret represented the previously existing equations with the goddesses Nut and Hathor .

Temple and Presentation

Temple District of Karnak. The Ipet-weret temple on the left.

The temple of Ipet-weret adjoined the Chons temple in Karnak to the west. In the local cult she was regarded as the "mother of Isis and Osiris who gave birth ". In addition, Ipet-weret was also known as " Ipet-weret-Nut ".

Iconographically , she is initially shown with a hippopotamus head next to Osiris's bier; later mostly "fire-spitting" with a human head, lion paws and knife, hathor, double feather and atef crown .

Cult and calendar

In the Egyptian calendar , the Egyptians celebrated the day "Isis is born by Ipet-weret on the night of the child in his nest in the house of Ipet". Her constellation was the " hippopotamus with the crocodile on its back "; also called Ipet-em-pet .

In prayers and invocations she was mentioned on the one hand as the “mother of the deceased”: “The deceased are full of jubilation in front of their temple, the day of the tying of the tendon.” On the other hand, the population saw in her the mother and reincarnation of Osiris : “She repeats the birth of Osiris, who is mighty in his form in Ipet-weret. "

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 .

Remarks

↑ Writing at the time of the New Kingdom; 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. 218.
↑ writing from the third intermediate 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. 218.

[1] Writing at the time of the New Kingdom; 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. 218.

[2] writing from the third intermediate 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. 218.