Harsomtus
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| Major cult center | Edfu and Dendera | ||||||||||||
| Parents | Heru-Behdeti and Hathor | ||||||||||||
Harsomtus was an ancient egyptian child god worshiped at Edfu[1], he was sometimes consented to be a form of Ra or Horus
Iconography
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Harsomtus has the appearance of a child usilay sitting on a lotus flower. He also appears as a snake that emerges from a lotus flower at Dendera.[2][3]
Mythology
[edit]Harsomtus is the son of Hathor and Heru-Behdeti who was a form of hours, with these two gods he formed the Triad of Edfu. Harsomtus is very similar to Ihy because both were child deities that were the son of Hathor and Horus
References
[edit]- ^ Lorton, Claude Traunecker. transl. from the French by David (2001). The gods of Egypt (1st English-language, enhanced and expanded ed.). Ithaca, N.Y [u.a.]: Cornell University Press. pp. 59. ISBN 0-8014-3834-9.
- ^ Waitkus (2002).
- ^ Waitkus (1997).
Sources
[edit]- Waitkus, Wolfgang (1997). Die Texte in den unteren Krypten des Hathortempels von Dendera: ihre Aussagen zur Funktion und Bedeutung dieser Räume [The texts in the lower crypts of the Hathor temples of Dendera: their statements regarding the function and meaning of these rooms] (in German). ISBN 3-8053-2322-0.
- Waitkus, Wolfgang (2002). "Die Geburt des Harsomtus aus der Blüte — Zur Bedeutung und Funktion einiger Kultgegenstände des Tempels von Dendera" [The birth of Harsomtus from the flower — The meaning and function of some of the cultural objects of the temple of Dendera]. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (in German). 30: 373–394. JSTOR 25152877.
