Duamutef
Egyptian · deity · old kingdom · Recorded classification
Duamutef keeps the stomach and his name means 'he who adores his mother', which is a strange thing to call a jar and a nice thing to call a god. Neith watches over him. The assignment of organ to son varies in practice — the pattern given here is the commonest and not the only one — and the cardinal points attached to the four are likewise a scheme the texts apply more tidily than the burials do.
Parentage
- parent: Horus
Domains
- funerary rites
Relations
- sibling: ImsetyOne of the four.Reference treatment of the four sons of Horus as a group of four brothers. (secondary)
- sibling: Hapy (son of Horus)One of the four.Reference treatment of the four sons of Horus as a group of four brothers. (secondary)
- sibling: QebehsenuefOne of the four.Reference treatment of the four sons of Horus as a group of four brothers. (secondary)
Sources
- Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus, is the jackal-headed guardian of the stomach in the canopic jars, protected by Neith.: Reference treatments of the four sons of Horus, their jars and their guardian goddesses. (secondary)