Canopus (Egyptian mythology)

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Canopus is the Latin name of an admiral of the mythological fleet that brought Isis and Osiris to India. According to other reports, it is the name of a ship that carried the two gods at the time of a great flood.

According to Homer, the Greeks know a canopus (Kanobos) as the helmsman of Menelaus . This was tragically killed and was buried in Per-Geuti (today's Abukir ), where he was venerated in the shape of a jug. The Greeks supposedly named the city in Egypt Canopus after him .

Later, Canopus was merged with Osiris and was depicted as a jar or egg-shaped object with a human head. His wife was the goddess Menuthis, a local form of Isis. As a result, all such vessels were called canopic jars in Egyptology .

The god Canopus

literature

  • Hans Bonnet : Canopus. In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. 3rd unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 368 f.
  • Heinrich Brugsch : Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1879–1880.
  • Bertha Porter, Rosalind Moss: Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings. 6 volumes, Griffith Institute, Oxford 1927–1939.
  • Wilhelm Webe (Georg Wilhelm): Three studies on the Egyptian-Greek religion. Habilitation thesis to obtain the venia legendi of the high philosophy faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg. [I. Helios Sarapis. II. Antinous-Hermes. III. Two forms of Osiris.] Universitäts-Buchdruckerei J. Hörning, Heidelberg 1911.
  • Alfred Wiedemann : Herodotus second book. With factual explanations. Teubner, Leipzig 1890.

Web links

Commons : Kanopus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Bonnet: Canopus. in: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Hamburg 2000, p. 368.
  2. ^ A b Hans Bonnet: Canopus. in: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Hamburg 2000, p. 369.
  3. ↑ George Andrew Reisner: The Dated Canopic Jars of the Gizeh Museum. in: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity. Volume 37, p. 61 ff.
  4. ↑ Hans Bonnet: Kanope in: Lexicon of Egyptian religious history. Hamburg 2000, p. 365.