Min
Egyptian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Ithyphallic god of male fertility, harvest and the eastern desert.
Domains
- fertility virility
- harvest
Powers
- Bestowing male potency and abundant harvest
- Renew the king's potency and guarantee the harvest
- Protect the eastern-desert roads and mining expeditions
Epithets
- kꜣ-mwt.f Bull of his mother; the self-renewing procreative fertility-godCoptos and Akhmim temple texts; the Min festival reliefs (primary)
- nb gbtw Lord of Coptos; Min of his principal cult-city and the eastern desertCoptos temple titulary; Pyramid Texts (primary)
Relations
- interpretatio: PanReciprocal of greek_hesiod_pan.interpretatio — Greeks read the ithyphallic Min as Pan, renaming Akhmim 'Panopolis'. Preserves ithyphallic fertility and herding links; breaks on Min's harvest-royal festival cult — nothing of Pan's wild panic.Herodotus, Histories 2.46; Greek toponym Panopolis for Min's city Khemmis/Akhmim (Strabo 17.1.41) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 256 (primary)