Ipy (goddess)
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| Ipy | |
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| File:Ipy goddess.svg | |
| Name in hieroglyphs | <hiero>i-p-t-t-B1</hiero> |
| Major cult center | Thebes |
| Genealogy | |
| Children | Osiris (some accounts) |
| Part of a series on |
| Ancient Egyptian religion |
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| Eye of Horus |
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Ipy is an ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility.[1] She is also known as Opet.[2] At Karnak she is called Ipet, and in the Demotic Magical Papyrus, she is called Apet, the mother of fire.[3] [4]
She is depicted as a hippopotamus.[1] She is sometimes depicted as a combination of a hippo, crocodile, human, and lion. Usually she is depicted with a lion's head, hippo's body, human arms, and lion feet.[2]
She was also seen as a protector of the pharaoh and invoked as mother.[5] In Theban theology she is the mother of Osiris.[4]
She is possibly a forerunner of Taweret.[6]
References
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- ^ Demotic Magical Papyrus
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