Hapi

This article is about the funerary deity. For percussion musical instrument by the same name see HAPI drum. Hapi is also an alternate spelling for Hapy, a Nile god.

Hapi in hieroglyphs

Hapi was one of the Four sons of Horus depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the Underworld. Hapi is depicted as a baboon-headed mummified human on funerary furniture and especially the canopic jars that held the organs of the deceased. Hapi's jar held the lungs. Hapi was also the protector of the North. Hapi was assigned to a tutelary protective goddess Nephthys. ^[1]

Hapi-(lung) Canopic jar of "Lady Senebtisi" God Hapi is spelled in Egyptian language hieroglyphs: "h-p-(det.–Rudder)"

God Hapi is spelled: "h-(Rudder)- p- ii-(two reeds)"

See also

• Four Sons of Horus – in-depth treatment of the Four Sons and their interrelationships.

References

1. ^ David B. O'Connor, Eric H. Cline, Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, University of Michigan Press 1998, ISBN 0472088335, p.121.

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