Min-Kamutef
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Min-Kamutef Mnw-K3 mwt = f Min, his mother's bull |
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Min-Kamutef is an ancient Egyptian god who is documented as a fusion of the deities Min and Amun-Re-Kamutef at the end of the second intermediate period or at the beginning of the 18th Dynasty ( New Kingdom ). Iconographically , Min-Kamutef adopted the ithyphallic form of the Min.
In the New Kingdom, Karnak was the main cult place of Min-Kamutef. In honor of his appearance as Kamutef , Hatshepsut and Thutmose III built. the temple of Kamutef , which was the focus of the Min festival processions .
See also
literature
- Herbert Ricke : The Kamutef Shrine Hatshepsut and Thutmoses' III. in Karnak - report of an excavation in front of the mother temple district - . Swiss Institute for Egyptian Building Research and Antiquity, Cairo 1954.