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God of

Fertility, and the eastern desert roads

Recognised by

A mummiform man with one arm raised holding a flail, ithyphallic, in twin plumes

Chief cult centre

Coptos

Fertility in the most direct iconography Egypt produced, and also the protector of the desert routes east toward the Red Sea. Nineteenth-century publications routinely declined to illustrate him.

Egyptian sources What Egyptians wrote, on walls, coffins and papyri. What that means

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