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Mendes (Ancient Greek: Μένδης, gen.: Μένδητος ), the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian city of Djedet , also known in ancient Egypt as Per - Banebdjedet ("The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet ") and Anpet , is known today as Tell El-Ruba ( Arabic : تل الربع ).
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.
Banebdjedet – A Ram god, patron of the city of Mendes [80] Ba-Pef – A little-known Duat deity; Ram-headed god of the eighth hour [81] [82] Bata – A Bull god, the brother of Anubis [83] Bes – Apotropaic god, represented as a dwarf, particularly important in protecting children and women in childbirth [84]
Outside of Mendes, Hatmehit appears as a deity overseeing the day on IV Akhet 22 in Dendera [13] and II Peret 3 in Edfu. [14] On IV Akhet 28, there is a Procession of Hatmehit recorded in the Cairo Calendar. This is accompanied by instructions to neither eat nor offer fish on that day, due to Hatmehit leaving Mendes in the form of an i͗tn fish ...
The satanic "horned god" symbol known as the baphomet is based on an Egyptian ram deity that was worshipped in Mendes, called Banebdjed (literally Ba of the lord of djed, and titled "the Lord of Mendes"), who was the soul of Osiris.
The Egyptian gods Khnum (Upper Egypt, shown here) were usually depicted with the head of a spiral-horned ram. Mendes is the Greek name for the ancient Egyptian city of Djedet. Lévi equates his image with "The Goat of Mendes", possibly following the account by Herodotus [60] that the god of
The Horned God is one of the two primary deities found in Wicca and some related forms of Neopaganism.The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th-century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god partly based on historical horned deities.
These two gods are now worshipped together under Ngewo, with Leve considered as his consort. Ngewo is a sky god, responsible for creating the universe, and is in charge of determining earth’s natural phenomena. [1] [2] He is popularly depicted as a distant deity, who does not concern himself with the day-to-day goings of his worshippers.