Hapy (son of Horus)
Egyptian · deity · old kingdom · Recorded classification
Two gods, one name, and the registry had the other one. `egyptian_hapi` is the androgynous god of the Nile flood, blue-skinned and heavy-breasted, who makes the inundation; this Hapy is a baboon-headed guardian of a jar of lungs. The names are written the same and the two have nothing else in common. Separating them is the same operation this programme performed on Uttu and Utu in the Mesopotamian pass: where a single name covers two gods, the registry carries two records and says so on both.
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: DuamutefOne 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
- Hapy, one of the four sons of Horus, is the baboon-headed guardian of the lungs in the canopic jars, protected by Nephthys, and is a different god from Hapi of the Nile inundation.: Reference treatments of the four sons of Horus and of Hapi the inundation god. (secondary)