Qebehsenuef
Egyptian · deity · old kingdom · Recorded classification
Qebehsenuef keeps the intestines, and his name — 'he who cools his brothers' — is the clearest statement of what the four are for: a libation, poured cold, over the parts of a person that have been taken out and stored. Serqet, the scorpion goddess, watches over him. He is falcon-headed, like the father the four are sons of.
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: DuamutefOne of the four.Reference treatment of the four sons of Horus as a group of four brothers. (secondary)
Sources
- Qebehsenuef, one of the four sons of Horus, is the falcon-headed guardian of the intestines in the canopic jars, protected by Serqet, and his name means 'he who cools his brothers'.: Reference treatments of the four sons of Horus, their jars and their guardian goddesses. (secondary)