Hapi

Sometimes water springs from his breast, sometimes he presents a frog or libation vases, or holds a bundle of the crusus ansado as symbols of life, or bears a flat tray full of offerings, bunches of flowers, ears of corn, heaps of fish, and geese tied together by the feet.

The inscriptions call him Hapi, father of the gods, lord of sustenance, who maketh food to be, and covereth the two lands of Egypt with his products, who giveth life, banisheth want, and filleth the granaries to overflowing.

He is evolved into two personages, one being sometimes colored red and the other blue.

The former, who wears a cluster of lotus flowers upon his head, presides over the Egypt of the south.

The latter has a bunch of papyrus for his headdress and watches over the delta.

Two goddesses, corresponding to the two Hapis, Mirit Kimat for upper and Mirit Mihit for lower Egypt, personified the banks of the river.

They are often represented as standing without stretched arms, as though begging for the water which should make them fertile.

The Nile god had his chapel in every province, and priests whose right it was to bury all bodies of men or beasts cast up by the river, for the god had claimed them and to his servants they belonged.

Sometimes water springs from his breast, sometimes he presents a frog or libation vases, or holds a bundle of the crusus ansado as symbols of life, or bears a flat tray full of offerings, bunches of flowers, ears of corn, heaps of fish, and geese tied together by the feet.

The inscriptions call him Hapi, father of the gods, lord of sustenance, who maketh food to be and covereth the two lands of Egypt with his products, who giveth life, banisheth want, and filleth the granaries to overflowing.

He is evolved into two personages, one being sometimes colored red and the other blue.

The former, who wears a cluster of lotus flowers upon his head, presides over the Egypt of the south.

The latter has a bunch of papyrus for his headdress and watches over the delta.

Two goddesses, corresponding to the two Hapis, Mirit Kimat for upper and Mirit Mihit for lower Egypt, personified the banks of the river.

They are often represented as standing without stretched arms, as though begging for the water which should make them fertile.

The Nile god had his chapel in every province, and priests whose right it was to bury all bodies of men or beasts cast up by the river, for the god had claimed them and to his servants they belonged.

A weak one was sometimes suppressed.

The priest declared that the flood was a gift from the god Hapi, a pot-bellied figure with pendulous breasts who lived in a cave near the first cataract at Aswan.

They performed rituals to encourage him.

They threw offerings into the river.

Sometimes water springs from his breast, sometimes he presents a frog or libation vases, or holds a bundle of the crusus ansado, as symbols of life, or bears a flat tray full of offerings, bunches of flowers, ears of corn, heaps of fish, and geese tied together by the feet.

The inscriptions call him Hapi, father of the gods, lord of sustenance, who maketh food to be, and covereth the two lands of Egypt with his products, who giveth life, banisheth want, and filleth the granaries to overflowing.

He is evolved into two personages, one being sometimes colored red and the other blue.

The former, who wears a cluster of lotus flowers upon his head, presides over the Egypt of the south.

The latter has a bunch of papyrus for his headdress and watches over the delta.

Two goddesses, corresponding to the two Hapis, Mirit Kimat for upper and Mirit Mihit for lower Egypt, personified the banks of the river.

They are often represented as standing without stretched arms, as though begging for the water which should make them fertile.

The Nile god had his chapel in every province, and priests whose right it was to bury all bodies of men or beasts cast up by the river, for the god had claimed them and to his servants they belonged.

Sometimes water springs from his breast, sometimes he presents a frog or libation vases, or holds a bundle of the crusus ansado as symbols of life, or bears a flat tray full of offerings, bunches of flowers, ears of corn, heaps of fish, and geese tied together by the feet.

The inscriptions call him Hapi, father of the gods, lord of sustenance, who maketh food to be and covereth the two lands of Egypt with his products, who giveth life, banisheth want, and filleth the granaries to overflowing.

He is evolved into two personages, one being sometimes colored red and the other blue.

The former, who wears a cluster of lotus flowers upon his head, presides over the Egypt of the south.

The latter has a bunch of papyrus for his headdress and watches over the delta.

Two goddesses, corresponding to the two Hapis, Mirit Kimat for upper and Mirit Mehit for lower Egypt, personified the banks of the river.

They are often represented as standing without stretched arms, as though begging for the water which should make them fertile.

The Nile god had his chapel in every province, and priests whose right it was to bury all bodies of men or beasts cast up by the river, for the god had claimed them and to his servants they belonged.