Tjaisepef
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Ṯ3j-sp = f Male of his threshing floor |
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Tjaisepef is a deity in Egyptian mythology . It is a very old bull god whose worship can already be proven in the 1st dynasty (Thinnite period, around 3000–2850 BC). In the Old Kingdom , several queens bore the title of "Servant of Tjaisepef". It has therefore temporarily been assumed that this name meant the deified king, so Tjaisepef was translated as “the most masculine of its kind”, but now the translation “more masculine of his threshing floor ” is being considered.
Tjaisepef is represented as a bull standing on a standard and in front of which there is a sign that partly looks like a stele, but partly also looks like two stakes. The last known mention of this god comes from the coffin texts of the Middle Kingdom .
See also
Remarks
- ↑ The final special character of the bull on the standard does not belong to the standard character set of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and therefore cannot be displayed for technical reasons.
literature
- Wolfgang Helck : Tjaisepef . In: Wolfgang Helck, Wolfhart Westendorf (Ed.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie , Vol. 6, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1986, column 607.