Egyptian myths
Published on Feb 03, 2021
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Maat
- the personification of truth, justice, and the cosmic order.
- The ceremony of judgment of the dead (called the “Judgment of Osiris,” named for Osiris, the god of the dead) was believed to focus upon the weighing of the heart of the deceased in a scale balanced by Maat
Apis Bull
- a sacred bull worshiped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of Hathor
- Initially, he was assigned a significant role in her worship, being sacrificed and reborn.
Bennu
- an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun, creation, and rebirth.
- He may have been the original inspiration for the phoenix legends that developed in Greek mythology.
Apep
- the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied chaos
- He appears in art as a giant serpent.
GRiffin
- a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet.
- Because the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts, and the eagle the king of the birds, by the Middle Ages,
Hieracosphinx
- mythical beast found in Egyptian sculpture and European heraldry
- The Hieracosphinx has the head of a hawk and the body of a lion. The name was coined by Herodotus to the hawk-headed sphinxes that he saw in Egypt
Serpopard
- a mythical animal known from ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian art. The word "serpopard" is a modern coinage.
- t is a portmanteau of "serpent" and "leopard", derived from the interpretation that the creature represents an animal with the body of a leopard and the long neck and head of a serpent. However, they have also been interpreted as "serpent-necked lions". There is no known name for the creature in any ancient texts.
uraeus
- The Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet
- The center of her cult was in Per-Wadjet, later called Buto by the Greeks.
