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Anhur
In Ancient Egyptian mythology, Onuris (also known as Onouris, Anhur, Anhuret, Han-Her, Inhert) was a god of war who was worshipped in the Egyptian area of Abydos, and particularly in Thinis. Myths told that he had brought his wife, Mehit, who was his female counterpart, from Nubia, and his name reflects this—it means '(one who) leads back the distant one'. One of his titles was ''slayer of enemies''. Onuris was depicted as a bearded man wearing a robe and a headdress with four feathers, holding a spear or lance, or occasionally as a lion-headed god (representing strength and power). In some depictions, the robe was more similar to a kilt. Roles God of war Due to his position as a war god, he was patron of the ancient Egyptian army, and the personification of royal warriors. Indeed, at festivals honoring him, mock battles were staged. During the Roman era the Emperor Tiberius was depicted on the walls of Egyptian temples wearing the distinctive four-plumed crown of Onuris. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minmose (high Priest)
Minmose was the High Priest of Anhur during the reign of Ramesses II.Kitchen, Kenneth A., Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt, Aris & Phillips. pp 170-171, 1983 Kitchen, Kenneth A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated Translations: Ramesses II, His Contemporaries (Ramesside Inscriptions Translations) (Volume III) Wiley-Blackwell. 2001 Family Minmose was the son of the high Priest of Anhur Hori and his wife Inty. Minmose was well connected. He was the brother-in-law to the Northern Vizier Prehotep I. Minmose was married to Buia called Khat-Nisu. Their daughter Huneroy was married to the Vizier Prehotep II. Career Minmose succeeded his father Hori as the Chamberlain of Shu and Tefnut, and High Priest of Anhur. The center of worship was at Thinis. The position of High Priest had been held by Nebwenenef. When Nebwenenef was appointed High Priest of Amun, the priesthood of Anhur was given to Minmose's father Hori. Monuments * Granite s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hori (high Priest)
Hori was a High Priest of Anhur during the reign of Ramesses II. He was the son of the High Priest of Amun Parennefer called Wennefer and his wife Isis.Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume III, Blackwell Publishers, 1996, pg 209, 193-195, 315 He may be identical to the High priest of Amun mentioned on the statue of the Overseer of the Charioteers named Kanakht. Family Hori comes from a very well connected family documented on a family monument of his brother Amenemone (Naples Museum 1069). The monument records members of an extended family including Hori, his father Wennenefer and his grandparents Minhotep and Maia. Uncles of Hori include Pennesuttawy, who was a Troop Commander in Kush and Minmose, who served as the high priest of Min and Isis. The Viceroy of Nubia Paser II was also a relative. The monument also mentions two brothers of Hori. Amenemone is said to have been a childhood friend of Ramesses II and later was the Chief o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anhurmose
Anhurmose was an ancient Egyptian official of the New Kingdom. He was the ''high priest of Anhur'' under Merenptah, but started his career as a military man, most likely under king Ramesses II (reigned about 1279–1213 BC). Anhurmose is mainly known from his tomb at El Mashayikh Lepidotonpolis, near Abydos. The tomb chapel is fully decorated and contains a long biographical inscription. According to this inscription he started his career on a ship, albeit it is not entirely clear what his exact position was there. Later he served in the army and was part of military campaigns. He was ''scribe of the army'' and ''chariotry''. The inscription does not mention a king. However, it seems likely that the service in the army was under king Ramesses II, as the second part of career happened under Merenptah. The latter reigned only for about 10 years. The biography states further more that Anhurmose was chosen by god Shu to become ''high priest of Maat''. It remains uncertain what ''chose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thinis
Thinis ( Greek: Θίνις ''Thinis'', Θίς ''This'' ; Egyptian: Tjenu; ; ) was the capital city of pre- unification Upper Egypt. Thinis remains undiscovered but is well attested by ancient writers, including the classical historian Manetho, who cites it as the centre of the Thinite Confederacy, a tribal confederation whose leader, Menes (or Narmer), united Egypt and was its first pharaoh. Thinis began a steep decline in importance when the capital was relocated to Memphis, which was thought to be the first true and stable capital after the unification of Egypt by Menes. Thinis's location on the border of the competing Heracleopolitan and Theban dynasties of the First Intermediate Period and its proximity to certain oases of possible military importance ensured Thinis some continued significance in the Old and New Kingdoms. This was a brief respite and Thinis eventually lost its position as a regional administrative centre by the Roman period. Due to its ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebwenenef
Nebwenenef was High Priest of Amun at the beginning of the reign of Ramesses II during the 19th Dynasty. Prior to that, Nebwenenef had served as High Priest of Anhur and High Priest of Hathor during the reign of Seti I and possibly even earlier. Titles In his tomb (TT157) a large number of titles are recorded as being held by Nebwenenef: * High Priest of Amun * High Priest of Anhur * High Priest of Hathor * Superintendent of the double treasury of silver and gold (of Amun) * Superintendent of the granary * Chief of Works and Chief of all the craftsmen in Thebes * Superintendent of Prophets of all Gods, to his South (as far) as Heriheramun, and to his North, (as far) as Thinis * Noble * Count * God's Father * Chief of Secrets in heaven, earth and the Netherworld(?) * Dignitary for the People * Chief of Seers, pure of hands in Thebes * Superintendent of the Prophets of South and North Egypt * Chief of Secrets in Southern Heliopolis (Thebes) Family Nebwenenef's wife was nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shu (Egyptian God)
Shu (Egyptian ''šw'', "emptiness" or "he who rises up") was one of the primordial Egyptian gods, spouse and brother to the goddess Tefnut, and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony. He was the god of light, peace, lions, air, and wind. Family In Heliopolitan theology, Atum created the first couple of the Ennead, Shu and Tefnut by masturbating or by spitting. Shu was the father of Nut and Geb and grandfather of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. His great-grandsons are Horus and Anubis. Myths drawing of shu with a more elaborate feathered headdress similar to Onuris. As the air, Shu was considered to be a cooling, and thus calming, influence, and pacifier. Due to the association with dry air, calm, and thus Ma'at (truth, justice, order, and balance), Shu was depicted as the dry air/atmosphere between the Earth and sky, separating the two realms after the event of the First Occasion. Shu was also portrayed in art as wearing an ostrich feather. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SMITE
''Smite'' is a 2014 free-to-play third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Hi-Rez Studios for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Amazon Luna.SMITE arriving soon on the Xbox One , Hi-Rez Studios, Inc . Hirezstudios.com (August 12, 2014). Retrieved on August 15, 2014. In ''Smite'', players control a god, goddess or other mythological figure and take part in team-based combat, using their abilities and tactics against other player-controlled gods and non-player-controlled ''minions''. The game has multiple |
Shu (Egyptian Deity)
Shu ( Egyptian ''šw'', "emptiness" or "he who rises up") was one of the primordial Egyptian gods, spouse and brother to the goddess Tefnut, and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony. He was the god of light, peace, lions, air, and wind. Family In Heliopolitan theology, Atum created the first couple of the Ennead, Shu and Tefnut by masturbating or by spitting. Shu was the father of Nut and Geb and grandfather of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. His great-grandsons are Horus and Anubis. Myths drawing of shu with a more elaborate feathered headdress similar to Onuris. As the air, Shu was considered to be a cooling, and thus calming, influence, and pacifier. Due to the association with dry air, calm, and thus Ma'at (truth, justice, order, and balance), Shu was depicted as the dry air/atmosphere between the Earth and sky, separating the two realms after the event of the First Occasion. Shu was also portrayed in art as wearing an ostrich feather. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastet
Bastet or Bast (), also known as Ubasti or Bubastis, is a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, possibly of Nubian origin, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BC). In ancient Greek religion, she was known as Ailuros (). Bastet was worshipped in Bubastis in Lower Egypt, originally as a lioness goddess, a role shared by other deities such as Sekhmet. Eventually Bastet and Sekhmet were characterized as two aspects of the same goddess, with Sekhmet representing the powerful warrior and protector aspect, and Bastet, who increasingly was depicted as a cat, representing a gentler aspect.Serpell, "Domestication and History of the Cat", p. 184. Name Bastet, which is the form of the name that is most commonly adopted by Egyptologists today because of its use in later dynasties, is a modern convention offering one possible reconstruction. In early Egyptian hieroglyphs, her name appears to have been ''bꜣstt''. James Peter Allen vocalizes the original form of the name as '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehit
Mehit (also Mehyt, Mekhit) was an ancient Egyptian and Nubian lion goddess of Nubian origin. History In the Early Dynastic period she was depicted as a reclining lioness with three bent poles projecting from her back. In that era she appears in numerous early dynastic sealings and ivory artifacts, usually together with a representation of an Upper Egyptian shrine.Toby A. H. Wilkinson: ''Early Dynastic Egypt'', Routledge; (2001), , p. 290 Her main places of worship were Hierakonpolis and Thinis.Emery, W.B. (1961) ''Archaic Egypt'', Harmondsworth: Penguin, p. 125 Beliefs Mehit was the consort of Onuris, or Anhur, a hunter god who was worshipped in Thinis. Various texts allude to a myth in which Onuris tracks down Mehit in Nubia and brings her to Egypt as his wife. This event is the basis for Onuris name, which means "bringer-back of the distant one". Late sources identify this story with the "Distant Goddess" myth, in which the Eye of Ra—a solar deity who can take the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ares
Ares (; , ''Árēs'' ) is the List of Greek deities, Greek god of war god, war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. The Greeks were ambivalent towards him. He embodies the physical valor necessary for success in war but can also personify sheer brutality and bloodlust, in contrast to his sister Athena, whose martial functions include military strategy and generalship. An association with Ares endows places, objects, and other deities with a savage, dangerous, or militarized quality. Although Ares' name shows his origins as Mycenaean, his reputation for savagery was thought by some to reflect his likely origins as a Thracian deity. Some cities in Greece and several in Asia Minor held annual festivals to bind and detain him as their protector. In parts of Asia Minor, he was an oracular deity. Still further away from Greece, the Scythians were said to ritually kill one in a hundred prisoners of war as an offering to their equivalent of Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Egyptian Mythology
Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world around them. The beliefs that these myths express are an important part of ancient Egyptian religion. Myths appear frequently in Egyptian writings and art, particularly in short stories and in religious material such as hymns, ritual texts, funerary texts, and temple decoration. These sources rarely contain a complete account of a myth and often describe only brief fragments. Inspired by the cycles of nature, the Egyptians saw time in the present as a series of recurring patterns, whereas the earliest periods of time were linear. Myths are set in these earliest times, and myth sets the pattern for the cycles of the present. Present events repeat the events of myth, and in doing so renew '' maat'', the fundamental order of the universe. Amongst the most important episodes from the mythic past are the creation myths, in which t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
