Ipet-weret-em-chet-Nut

Ipet-weret-em-chet-Nut ("The great Ipet in the body of the groove ") was worshiped as one of the twelve month hippopotamus goddesses. In Sothis calendar she represented the goddess of the second month of the season Schemu . As the embodiment of Hathor , Ipet-weret-em-chet-Nut stood as "little Hathor" in its own shrine in the Karnak Temple , Dendera , Philae and Edfu, among others .

Iconographically , it is often symbolized with the body of a pregnant hippopotamus and a hippopotamus head, human hands , crocodile backs and lion paws . In human form she wears the ancient Egyptian double and small Hathor crown.

During the Greco-Roman period , Ipet-weret-em-chet-Nut appeared as the goddess of the third month of Peret . In the series of 50 Mammisi deities she had the additional designation: "A goddess of the gods, of the excellent and noble ladies".

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 from the 26th Dynasty, cf. 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.

[L1-1] Writing from the 26th Dynasty, cf. 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.