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God Heryshaf |
God Heryshaf meaning ("He who is on his lake") In Egyptian mythology. It is recorded in Greek as "Harsaphes" was an ancient ram-god whose cult was middle in Herakleopolis Magna (now Ihnasiyyah al-Madinah). He was identifed with
Ra and
Osiris in Egyptian mythology, and to Heracles in Greek mythology. The recognition with Heracles may be concerned to the fact that in afterwards times his figure was some times reanalyzed as "He who is over strength." One of his titles was Ruler of the Riverbanks. Heryshaf was a creator and fecundity god who was born from the earliest waters. He was showed as a man with the head of a ram, or as a drive.