Kebechsenuef

Kebechsenuef in hieroglyphics

mostly only

That cools his brothers

or

Kebechsenuef (also Qebehsenuef ) was one of the four sons of Horus and canopic gods who protected the mummified entrails. His parents are the god "Horus the Elder" ( Haroeris ) and the goddess Isis .

presentation

Kebechsenuef is initially depicted in human form, since the New Kingdom with the head of a falcon. As with Duamutef , there are also different statements in the literature about his depiction with an animal's head : on the one hand, a falcon's head is assigned, on the other hand, that of a jackal's head.

Importance as the patron god of the canopi

Together with the three other sons of Horus, Amset , Hapi and Duamutef, he protected the mummified entrails. He was responsible for the protection of the abdominal organs ( intestines ).

Meaning in mythology

The pyramid texts name Kebechsenuef as the patron god of the dead and their helper in ascending to heaven. Kebechsenuef is called via the inscriptions on the canopic jugs and the associated canopic boxes.

In the Osiris cycle , Kebechsenuef is, like the other sons of Horus, “one of the hour watch on the corpse of Osiris”. He is the patron god of the fourth hour of the day and the fourth hour of the night, who at both times says: "Kebechsuenef comes to see you, he fends off the (opponent) who comes up behind you."

The mythology according to which he was of Horus determined as his siblings as guardians of the cardinal points and sent as Krönungsbote west. Like all sons of Horus, Kebechsenuef is a star god. With Duamutef he forms a couple in Hierakonpolis who were revered as a “soul” and who guarded the hands of Horus. His patron goddess is Selket .

literature

Mary Barnett : Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt. Gondrom, Bindlach 1998, ISBN 3-8112-1646-5 .
Hans Bonnet : Kebehsenuf. In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. (RÄRG) Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 373.
Rolf Felde : Egyptian deities. 2nd expanded and improved edition, R. Felde Eigenverlag, Wiesbaden 1995.
Lucia Gahlin : Egypt - gods, myths, religions. Edition XXL, Reichelsheim 2001, ISBN 389736-312-7 .
Veronica Ions : The gods and myths of Egypt (= the great religions of the world - gods, myths and legends ). Neuer Kaiser Verlag - Book and World, Klagenfurt 1988.
Manfred Lurker : Lexicon of the gods and symbols of the ancient Egyptians. Handbook of the mystical and magical world of Egypt. Special edition, 1st edition, Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-502-16430-4 .

Fiction

Alexander Graeff : Kebehsenuf. (= Edition of Fiction. Q49). 1st edition, new edition, Verlagshaus J. Frank, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940249-89-0 .

Individual evidence

^ Karl Martin: Kanopen II. In: Wolfgang Helck : Lexikon der Ägyptologie. (LÄ) Vol. III, column 317 and H. Bonnet: RÄRG Hamburg 2000, p. 366.
↑ Richard H. Wilkinson: The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Faith - Power - Mythology (= The complete gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1819-6 . P. 88.
↑ Rosemarie Drenkhahn: Kebehsenuef. In: LÄ Vol. III, column 379.
↑ Arne Eggebrecht: Duamutef. In: LÄ Vol. I, column 1150.
^ Günther Roeder : Documents on the religion of ancient Egypt. Diederichs, Jena 1923, pp. 36, 43.

[1] Karl Martin: Kanopen II. In: Wolfgang Helck : Lexikon der Ägyptologie. (LÄ) Vol. III, column 317 and H. Bonnet: RÄRG Hamburg 2000, p. 366.

[2] Richard H. Wilkinson: The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Faith - Power - Mythology (= The complete gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1819-6 . P. 88.

[3] Rosemarie Drenkhahn: Kebehsenuef. In: LÄ Vol. III, column 379.

[4] Arne Eggebrecht: Duamutef. In: LÄ Vol. I, column 1150.

[5] Günther Roeder : Documents on the religion of ancient Egypt. Diederichs, Jena 1923, pp. 36, 43.