Ba-Pef
Sign in to saveBa-Pef was a minor underworld god in Egyptian mythology. The name literally means that Ba, meaning that soul (ba). 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.
Key facts
- Deity.name
- Ba-pef
- Deity.type
- Egyptian
- Deity.image
- Ba-pef as a ram-headed man.svg
- Deity.caption
- Ba-pef as a ram-headed man with two knives
- Deity.hiero
- R7-Z1:E10-p:f
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ancient Egyptian deity
- Image
- Ba-pef as a ram-headed man.svg
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- worshipped by
- religion of ancient Egypt
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Ba-Pef was a minor underworld god in Egyptian mythology. The name literally means that Ba, meaning that soul (ba). 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.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ba-Pef” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.