Hemen
Sign in to saveHemen is a falcon god in the Ancient Egyptian religion.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Egyptian
- Deity.name
- Hemen
- Deity.image
- Egypte louvre 062 offrande.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Taharqa offering before Hemen. Statue from the Louvre.
- Deity.hiero
- H-mn:n-G11
- Deity.symbol
- Falcon
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Places of worship
- Some examples of artifacts containing references to Hemen
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Hemen is a falcon god in the Ancient Egyptian religion.
==Places of worship== thumb|250px|right|Different perspective showing Hemen in more detail.Often worshipped as a divine entity unified with Horus, as Horus-Hemen lord of Asphynis or Horakhte-Hemen of Hefat. Flinders Petrie refers to Hemen as a god of Tuphium. Hemen is also used for the name of a town of ancient Egypt (as mentioned by Flinders Petrie during his studies of Abydos).
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