Imsety
Egyptian · deity · old kingdom · Recorded classification
Imsety keeps the liver. He is the one with a human head, which in a set otherwise made of baboon, jackal and falcon makes him the easiest to identify and the hardest to explain — nobody is certain why one of the four should be human. Isis watches over him. The four brothers are the canopic jars, which means they are among the most physically present gods in Egyptian archaeology: there are thousands of them in museums, four at a time, each holding one organ of one person.
Parentage
- parent: Horus
Domains
- funerary rites
Relations
- 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: 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
- Imsety is the human-headed son of Horus who guards the liver in the canopic jars and is himself protected by Isis.: Reference treatments of the four sons of Horus, their jars, their organs and their guardian goddesses. (secondary)