Bes
Egyptian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Dwarf household god guarding sleep, childbirth and joy.
Domains
- household protection
- childbirth
Powers
- Scaring off demons and snakes from home and mother
- Guard mother and child through labour and infancy
- Bring music, dance and merriment into the home
Epithets
- bs Bes (the protector-dwarf)Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (2003) (secondary)
Relations
- companion: TaweretDwarf household-and-childbirth god conventionally paired with the hippopotamus goddess Taweret as the two domestic protective deities.G. Pinch, Egyptian Mythology (2002); R.H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (2003) on the Bes–Taweret household/childbirth-protector pairing (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Apotropaic wands, Middle Kingdom (primary)