Merimutef
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Meri-mutef Mr-mw.t = f Who loves his mother ( Nut ) or The lover of his mother (Nut) |
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Merimutef (also Meri-mutef ) was the ancient Egyptian name of a dead deity , which also represented another title of Osiris and symbolized the deceased, who loves his father ( Meriatef ) and the brothers ( Merisenuef ).
background
In the Middle Kingdom , Merimutef has been shown to be useful to his father .
Iconographically , Merimutef appears in the New Kingdom as a human figure with a ram's head and is depicted accordingly in the mortuary temple of Seti I in Abydos . He is also 31st of 55 deities in a Sokar chapel . The amalgamation of Osiris to Ptah- Sokar-Osiris forms the mythological background .
In the late period , his representation changed into a falcon-headed god, which was also retained in the Greco-Roman period . In the assignment, the change from Osiris to the deity Horus as the beloved son of Isis , who was responsible as Chronokat for the day of the 13th Peret I , took place.
Merimutef-em-taentem
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Merimutef-em-taentem Mr mw.t = fm-t3 n tm Merimutef in Dendera |
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The god of the dead Merimutef-em-taentem is considered the son of Osiris and Isis in Greco-Roman times and is equated with Horus.
Its main place of worship is Dendera . Iconographically he is depicted with the typical Horus lock , which is mythologically related to the appearance of Horus in Chemnis.
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods , Vol. 3: P - nbw . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 2-87723-646-3 , p. 338.