Har-pa-khered

The young Horus (Egyptian Har), the Hellenistic god known to Greeks as Harpocrates (in Egyptian Har-pa-khered or Heru-pa-khered meaning "Har, the Child"), was received by Isis from Osiris in the underworld. Harpocrates, the child Horus, personifies the first strength of the winter sun, and also the image of early vegetation. Egyptian statues represent the child Horus, pictured as a naked boy with his finger on his mouth, a realization of the hieroglyph for "child" that is unrelated to the Greco-Roman and modern ge ...

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Mendes (Μένδης), the Greek name of ancient Djedet (modern تل الربع Tall al-Rubˁ), is a city in the eastern Nile delta (30°58′N 31°30′E). It was the capital of the 16th Lower Egyptian nome, and during the 29th dynasty, it was the capital of ancient Egypt. It lays on the Mendesian branch of the Nile (now silted up), about 35 kilometres east of Mansura. The site is today the largest surviving tell in the Nile delta, and consists of both Tell al-Rubˁ (the site of the main temple enclosure) and Tell Tima ...

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898: "Harpocrates." Stele depicting Heru-pa-Khered standing on the back of a crocodile, holding snakes in His outstretched hands were erected in Egyptian temple courtyards, where they would be immersed or lustrated in water; the water was then used for blessing and healing purposes as the Name was attributed with many protective and healing powers. The lines quoted are from Metamorphoses 9:688 - 9:692 (not the tenth book): / aut stetit aut visa est. iner ...

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