Mehen
Sign in to saveIn Egyptian mythology, the name Mehen (), meaning 'coiled one', referred to a mythological snake-god and to a board game. ==Snake god== The earliest known references to Mehen occur in the Coffin Texts. Mehen is a protective deity who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night, for instance in the Amduat.
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- Deity.type
- egyptian
- Deity.name
- Mehen
- Deity.image
- Book of Gates Barque of Ra cropped.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Mehen surrounding Ra, in the form of a man with a ram head, on his Solar Barque
- Deity.hiero
- mH:n-I12
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- Instance of
- Ancient Egyptian deity
- Part of
- Egyptian mythology
- Gender
- male
- Image
- Book of Gates Barque of Ra cropped.jpg
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- religion of ancient Egypt
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- Mehen
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- Mehen
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- Snake god
- Relationship between snake-god and Mehen game
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In Egyptian mythology, the name Mehen (), meaning 'coiled one', referred to a mythological snake-god and to a board game. ==Snake god== The earliest known references to Mehen occur in the Coffin Texts. Mehen is a protective deity who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night, for instance in the Amduat.
In the German-Egyptian dictionary by R. Hannig, it is said that the Mehen (mḥn) or the Mehenet (mḥnt) snake is equivalent to the Ouroboros.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mehen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.