Banebdjedet
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Banebdjedet also spelled Banebdjed or Banebdjetet is an Ancient Egyptian ram god with a cult centre at Mendes. Khnum was the equivalent god in Upper Egypt. He is most notable for appearing in the myth
A statuette likely depicting Banebdjedet with four ram heads facing in four directions. Faience ceramic, ca 500-200 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art
An amulet depicting Banebdjedet as a ram with four heads, Late Period. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Banebdjedet as a four-headed ram, surmounted by Nekhbet
Prince Mentuherkhepeshef giving offerings to a mummiform-depicted Banebdjedet, KV19, 20th dynasty (ca 1129–1111 BC)
Harpocrates
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Harpocrates is the god of silence, secrets, and confidentiality, and a protector of reputations in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria. Greeks adapted Harpocrates from the Egypt
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…myth of Horus and Set. His wife was the goddess Hatmehit ("Foremost of the Fishes"), who was perhaps the original deity of Mendes. Their offspring was "Horus the Child" and they formed the so-called "Mendesian Triad". The words for "ram" and "soul" sounded the same in Egyptian, so ram deities were at times regarded…
One of two known Phoenician Harpocrates statues
Isis, Serapis and their child Harpocrates (Louvre)
Bronze statuette of Harpocrates, Bagram, Afghanistan, 2nd century.
Harpocratic Eros, terracotta figurine made in Myrina, Greece, c. 100–50 B.C. (Louvre)