God Seker

God Seker

Seker is a falcon god of the Memphite necropolis. Although the pregnant of his name continues uncertain, the Egyptians in the Pyramid Texts related his name to the sad cry of Osiris to Isis 'Sy-k-ri' 'hurry to me', in the underworld. Seker is powerfully related with two other gods, Ptah the chief god of Memphis and Osiris the deity of the dead. In later periods this connexion was stated as the triple deity Ptah-Seker-Osiris.

Seker was commonly shown as a mummified hawk and sometimes as mound from which the head of a hawk comes out. Here he is predicted 'he who is on his sand'. Sometimes he is presented on his hennu bark which was an particular sledge  for negociate the sandy necropolis. One of his claims was 'He of Restau' which substance the place of 'openings' or tomb entrances.

Through the New Kingdom Book of the Underworld, the Amduat, he is presented standing on the back of a snake between two spread wings, as an reflection of freedom this suggests a connection with resurrection or perchance a satisfactory passage of the underworld. Despite this the region of the underworld associated with Seker was seen as difficult, sandy terrain called the Imhet (meaning 'filled up').

Seker, perchance through his affiliation with Ptah, also has a link with crafters. In the Book of the Dead he is said to fashion silver arenas and a silver coffin of Sheshonq II has been described at Tanis decorated with the iconography of Seker.

In the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments", the Pharaoh Ramses II invokes the same god to bring his broken prime son back to life, while portrayed as wearing dark blue gown with a silver submit. Seker's cult middle was in Memphis where festivals in his observe were held in the 4th month of the akhet (spring) season.  The  deity  was  shown  as  assisting  in  various  tasks  such  as  digging  trenches  and  canals.  From  the  New Kingdom a alike festival was took in Thebes.

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God Anubis

God Anubis

The Greek rendering of the Egyptian Anpu or Anup, addressed the Opener of the Way for the drawn, Anubis was the point of the afterlife. From the advance time Anubis presided over the embalming rites of the went and took galore pleas in the mortuary prayers itemized on behalf of psyches getting their way to Tuat, or the Underworld.

Anubis was commonly depicted as a black Jackal with a branched tail  or  as  a  man  with  the  head  of  a  jackal  or  a dog. In the pyramid texts Anubis was represented as the son of Ra and given a daughter, a goddess of freshness. In time he lost both of those ascribes and became break of the  Osirian  cultic  tradition,  the  son  of  Nepthys, abandoned by his mother, who had borne him to Osiris. Isis raised  him  and  when  he  was  grown  he  gone with Osiris. He aided Isis when Set pile Osiris and taken apart  his  corpse.  Anubis  invented  the  mortuary  rites  at this  time,  leading  on  the  title  of  "Lord  of  the  Mummy Wraps".  He  was  also  visited  Khenty-seh-netjer,  the Foremost of the Sacred Place (the burial chamber). He was addressed as well Neb-ta-djeser, the Lord of the Sacred Land, the necropolis.

Anubis  henceforward  ushered  in  the  went  to  the Judgment halls of Osiris. The deity staid on popular in full  periods  of  Egyptian  history  and  close  in  the  time  of foreign domination. Anubis took over the craze of Khenti-Amenttiu, an early eye tooth god in Abydos. There he was addressed  as  Tepiy-dju-ef,  he  who is  on  His  Mountain. Anubis guarded the scales upon which the souls of the dead were counted at opinion. He was a extremity of the Ennead of Heliopolis, in that city.

God Nehebu-Kau

God Nehebu-Kau

A snake-god, He who rules the spirits, whose indomitability is a source of protective cover both in Egypt and in the Underworld. In  the  Pyramid Texts  Nehebu-Kau  is addressed son  of  Selkis ,  the scorpion-goddess,  stressing  his  role in later  spells  of  reconstructing  the  health of victims  of  venomous  bites.  Protective of  royalty,  Nehebu-Kau  receives  the crowned head  in  the Afterlife  and  supplies  a meal. A Middle Kingdom spell describes the gone with this snake-god who is not taken to any magic, nor vulnerable to fire  and  water.  One  author  of  his  power consists  in  the  magical  force  of  the  number seven in  the  seven cobras  which he buried.  In  a  spell  concerning  the welfare  of  his  heart  in  the Afterlife,  the gone requests other gods to give him a good recommendation to Nehebu-Kau. There  is  a  touch  in  the  Old Kingdom that Nehebu-Kaus  power takes  to  be controlled by the sun-deity Atum promoting a fingernail on the snakes spine. Another custom makes Nehebu-Kau the son of the earth-god Geb and the harvest-goddess Renenutet. Consequently his chthonic  and  rich  power  provides other gods with their vital force.