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Ba-Pef was a minor underworld god in Egyptian mythology. The name literally means that Ba, meaning that soul . Ba-Pef is commonly portrayed as an obscure malevolent deity known from the Old Kingdom. During the Old and Middle Kingdom the priesthood of Ba-Pef was held by queens. [1] [2]
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Vol. 1. Oxford, UK / New York, NY / Cairo, EG: Oxford University Press / The American University in Cairo Press. pp. 47– 48. Žabkar, Louis Vico (1968). A Study of the Ba Concept in Ancient Egyptian Texts. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Vol. 34. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Ba, also known as Horus Ba, is the serekh-name of an early Egyptian or ancient Egyptian king who may have ruled at the end of the 1st Dynasty, the latter part of 2nd Dynasty or during the 3rd Dynasty. Neither the exact length of his reign nor his chronological position is known.
According to Egyptian mythology, Bennu was a self-created being said to have played a role in the creation of the world. He was said to be the ba (personality component of the soul) of the sun deity Ra , and to have enabled the creative actions of Atum . [ 2 ]
Ba – A god of fertility [19] Ba-Ra – A god [38] Baal – Sky and storm god from Syria and Canaan, worshiped in ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom [78] Babi – A Baboon god characterized by sexuality and aggression [79] Banebdjedet – A Ram god, patron of the city of Mendes [80] Ba-Pef – A little-known Duat deity; Ram-headed god of the ...
The ba was the component of the human or divine soul that affected the world around it. Any visible manifestation of a god's power could be called its ba; thus, the sun was called the ba of Ra. [122] A depiction of a deity was considered a ka, another component of its being, which acted as a vessel for that deity's ba to inhabit.
Babi, also Baba, [1] [2] in ancient Egyptian religion, was the deification of the hamadryas baboon, one of the animals present in ancient Egypt. His name is usually translated as "bull of the baboons", roughly meaning "chief of the baboons". [3]
Typically, the horned god Banebdjedet was depicted with four rams' heads to represent the four Bas of the sun god. He may also be linked to the first four gods to rule over Egypt (Osiris, Geb, Shu and Ra-Atum), with large granite shrines to each in the Mendes sanctuary.