Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Hapy

Mirror image of Hapy from wikimedia.org

Though the Nile had other guardian gods, it was Hapy, the "Lord of the Fishes and Birds of the Marshes," who held the  all-important job of controlling the flow of the river.

He was a powerful deity; yet he had no temple, as far as we know. This patron of Lower and Upper Egypt had two names: Hap-Meht and Hap-Reset.

The mirror image shows his dual nature, and the blue colour symbolizes the water so important to him.

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