Tatenen

Tatenen


 * Other Names:**

Tathen, Tatjenen, Temu, Tenen, Ten


 * Meaning of Name:**

“Exalted Earth” or “The Rising Earth”


 * Titles:**

“Fashioner of the Earth”

"Father of the Gods"

A very ancient god who represented fertility and the soil, Tatenen personified the fertile silt of the Nile, and the primordial mound. Every year he emerged from the waters of the inundation ready to bear fruit and nourish mankind. As a vegetation god, Tatenen was portrayed with green or blue skin. Tatenen was thought to make the deceased welcome in the Duat, and help them on their way. Amulets of him were buried with the dead for protection. Tatenen also rejuvenated the sun on its nocturnal journey through the Duat. Tatenen was pictured as a bearded man with twisted ram's horns, wearing the Two Feathers Crown or the sun-disk and holding an Ames Scepter, or as four crowned rams. He was sometimes associated with the Djed.


 * Quotes from the Book of the Dead and other sources:**

Hymn to Tatenen

Egyptian Deities - T