Sheepsi

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Schepsi , "The Magnificent", is worshiped as the local sun god in Hermopolis . At the same time he is the father of the primordial beings there - eighthness . It has been documented since the 18th dynasty . The representation is falcon-headed or as a human figure with the sun disk on the head. It is possible that he was originally a component of eighthness, which was later separated from it as the god of the sun.

See also

literature

  • Hans Bonnet : Schepsi. In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 679.
  • Kurt Sethe : Amun and the eight primordial gods of Hermopolis: An investigation into origin and Essence d. egypt. King of the gods (= treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences: Philosophical-historical class. [APAW] born in 1929, no. 4.). Academy of Science; de Gruyter, both Berlin 1929, § 97.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia. Volume III, ed. by Eduard Naville and Ludwig Borchardt, edited by Kurt Sethe. Leipzig 1897–1904. Reprint: Verlagsgruppe Zeller, Osnabrück 1970, pp. 188f.
  2. ↑ Richard Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia. Volume III, pp. 119g, 191k.