Heryshaf

Heryshaf


 * Other Names:**

Herishef, Harsaphes, Arsaphes

**Meaning of Name:**

“He Who is Upon His Lake”


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 * Titles:**

“He Who is Over Strength”

“Ruler of the Riverbanks”

Heryshaf was a creator and fertility god who was born from the primeval waters of Nun. He was a fearsome protector, and during the first millennium B.C.E., Heryshaf was revered as a cosmic deity whose eyes were the sun and the moon. He appears on protective wands of the Middle Kingdom, and is represented by many ram or ram-headed amulets during later times. Heryshaf was pictured as a man with the head of a ram, wearing a kilt and the Atef Crown, or as a long-horned ram.


 * Outside of Egypt:**

Heryshaf is credited with helping Alexander the Great conquer the Persians, enemies of Egypt. The Greeks equated Heryshaf with their Hercules.

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