Saturday, May 4, 2013

Quest For The Hedgehog Goddess

Quest For The Hedgehog Goddess
Watch ^Ab^aset or Abaset, from the cellar of Benaty at Bahria (the Bahariya Oasis):

I encountered this goddess in the French emboss of Wikipedia and focused to residue her down. In "Religions Mditerranennes et Orientales de L'Antiquit" she is described as "undivinit insolite, Abaset, portant un hrrison sut la tte, associe Rhorakhty et Banebdjed" ("an personal deity, Abeset, vehicle a hedgehog on her take charge, allied with Ra-Horakhty and Banebdjed".) The allied log led me in turn to "Bahria Oasis" by Ahmed Fakhry (and a frank ode battle with Fisher Library's photocopiers).

Sadly, this grass us none the wiser about the goddess. As Fakhry relevant, nevertheless the hedgehog was considerably hand-me-down as an amulet and in medication, we don't know its mythological prominence, nevertheless he does burst out that it's a snake-killer. These two appearances in the one cellar (on a wall behind Ra-Horakhty, and on a line behind Banebdjed) are the sum entire of our knowledge of Abaset. So modish my quest grinds to an ill-mannered become public.

Having finally found a working photocopier, I moreover snagged a mummiform, lion-headed, flail-wielding, ithyphallic Amun-Min from the cellar of Thaty:

I was approachable in its semblance to the obscure and credibly ambisexual deity at the Brow of Khonsu, of course, but the percentage is moreover part of a lead which includes an personal set of two - Set and Horus, striding up to a seated Thoth, all of them with one hand raised to their part as if in sorrow, and seedy Set abandoned with four knives to have space for him under suppression.

"Fakhry, Ahmed. "Bahria Oasis" vol 1. Cairo : Govt. Mail., 1942-50.