Hapi

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Hapi
This article is about the funerary deity. Hapi' is also an alternate spelling for Hapy, a Nile god''. Hapi was one of the Four sons of Horus depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the Underworld. Hapi is depicted as a baboon-headed mummified human on funerary furniture and especially the canopic jars that held the organs of the deceased. Hapi's jar held the lungs. Hapi was also the protector of the North. Hapi was assigned to a tutelary protective goddess Nephthys.
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hap
n. pill, tablet, pellet, tabloid


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Hapi
[Egyptian] The personification of the Nile in ancient Egypt. He was particularly associated with the annual flooding of the Nile, which was considered as a gift to the gods and kings. He was believed to live in caves near the Nile cataracts with his retinue of crocodile gods and frog goddesses (his harem). Hapi was portrayed as a plump man with pendulous female breasts, with a beard, a large belly, and a crown of aquatic plants. Hapi is also the name of one of the four Sons of Horus.

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Hap or Hapi (Egyptian) God of the Nile; Hep (later Hap) is a name believed to be given to the river by the predynastic Egyptians. The deity is always represented in the form of a man with the breasts of a woman: symbol of fertility and nourishment.
As Egypt was divided into the North and South, the deity took on two aspects: Hap-Reset, the North Nile, pictured with a cluster of papyrus plants upon his head, and Hap-Meht, the South Nile, depicted with lotus plants. He was called the vivifier, creator of things which exist, father of the gods. In one aspect, Hap was identified with Osiris, especially Osiris-Apis or Serapis; thus Isis came to be regarded as his consort. Likewise he had absorbed the attributes of Nu, the primeval watery abyss from which Ra, the sun god, emerged on the first day of the new world period; therefore he was designated the father of living things, for without the waters of Hap, all living things would perish. Blavatsky points to his psychopompic role and his equivalence with the angel Gabriel (BCW 10:55-6).
Hap among the ancient Egyptians was considered to have two existences, the celestial and the earthly, and in a sense was in Egypt what the river Jordan, both mystical and earthly, became to the Jews and Christians. Again, it is both the river of life and the river of death, crossed at the beginning of the peregrinations undertaken by the deceased. See also Nile God 


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