God Babi

God Babi Hieroglyphic Name

God Babi

God Babi, in Egyptian mythology, was the deification of the baboon, one of the animals present in Egypt. His name is normally transformed as Bull of the baboons, and roughly means Alpha male of all baboons, i.e. chief of the baboons.

Baboons  showing  many  human  characteristics,  it  was  considered  in  early  times,  at  least  since  the Predynastic Period, that they were deceased antecedents. In particular, the alpha males were named as deceased rulers, concerned to as the great white one (Hez-ur in Egyptian), since Hamadryas baboon (the mintages regular in Egypt) alpha males have a famous light grey streak. For Instance, Narmer is drawn in some images as having varied into a baboon. Since baboons were seen to be the dead, Babi was considered as an Hades deity. Baboons are highly competitive,  and  omnivorous,  and  so  Babi  was  viewed  as  being  very  violent,  and  living  on  entrails.

Therefore, he was viewed as devouring the souls of the wicked after they had been weighed against Ma'at (the  construct  of  truth/order), and  was  therefore  said  to  stand  by  a  lake  of  fire,  doing  destruction.  Since  this trying of righteousness was an outstanding part of the Hell, Babi was said to be the first-born son of Osiris, the god of the dead in the same realms in which people believed in Babi. Baboons also have observably high sex drives, in addition to their full level of venereal marking, and so Babi was seen the deity of virility of the dead. He was usually portrayed with an hard-on, and due to the connexion with the judgments of souls, was sometimes represented as using it as the mast of the ferry which carried the righteous to Aaru,  a  series  of  islands. Babi  was  also  prayed  to,  in  order  to  ensure  that  an  own  would  not  suffer  from impotency after death.

God Apophis

God Apophis Hieroglyphic Name

God Apophis (the snake)

God Apophis was a giant  serpent  with secret  powers  who  was  the  opposition  of  the  God Ra. Apophis was in the waters of Nun, the cosmogonical domain of chaos, or in the ethereal waters of the Nile, the divine  entity  envisioned  in  Egyptian  religious  texts.  He tried each day to stop R from his firm passage through the sky. In some traditions, Apophis was a last  form  of  Ra  that  had  been  discarded,  a  myth  that reported for the strength of the creature. Apophis was taken for to be a sound threat to R by the Egyptians. On  sunless  days,  especially  on  stormy  days,  the  people took  the  lack  of  sunlight  as  a  sign  that  Apophis  had immersed R and his solar boat. Apophis never got a lasting  victory,  however,  because  of  the  prayers  of  the priests and the close. The ritual document, the Book of  Overriding Apophis,  and  the  Book  of  Knowing How  Ra  Came  into  Being  and  How  to  Upset Apophis were learned in Karnak, and in the Papyrus Bremner-Rhind,  and  contained  a  list  of  the  serpents secret names that would wound him if recited aloud and a selection of hymns to be sung to keep Ra victories. A serials  of  terrible  assaults  were  invested  upon Apophis apiece time the serpent was killed, but he rose in strength  that  observing  morning,  an  image  of  evil always made to attack the righteous. Apophis was the prosopopoeia of dark and evil.

God Serapis

God Serapis Hieroglyphic Name

God Serapis

God Serapis was an human like God created by the Greek King  Ptolemy I. Ptolemy I chose Serapis to be the official god of Egypt and Greece alike. He hoped a bad spiritual base would mix the 2 peoples and ease tension in the country. Serapis' properties were both Egyptian and Hellenistic. Serapis become very popular and his cult quickly spread from its heart in Alexandria. A Roman historian took a firm stand that the god was to begin with from Asia Minor. However, Egypt likely provided the serious attributes of Serapis. Serapis' Egyptian nature can be saw in his roots, which were drawn from the crazes of Osiris and the Apis bull. These rages had been combined prior to the dominate of Ptolemy I. At that time, a spiritual bull of Memphis addressed Osorapis was favorite after its expiry. Osorapis was an agricultural god whose cult emphasized the Egyptian rules of life afterwards death. The early Greek pharaohs seemed to have been run to Osorapis as a god who appeared to fuse the countless of Egyptian gods and disciplined aspects that were easily fusible with the gods of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic factors of Serapis prevail Serapis' (personality) and iconogrpahy. Many greek deities brought to his nature, taking on: Zeus, Helios, Dionysos, Hades and Aesculapius. From "Zeus" and "Helios" he taken the looks of reign and sun-deity. Dionysos brought to him the attribute of presiding over nature. Hades connected him to the hereafter and Aesculapius made him the art of healing. The Greek pictures of Serapis show him with long hair and a long beard. He is seated on a throne with the 3 headed dog of Hades, Cerberus, at his feet. The Egyptian images of the god present him as a mummified human with the bead of a bull. He is royal with the elliptical moon and two clothes.