From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved
"Volume III - Gods/Goddesses of Ancient Egypt"
BANEBDJEDET
(Ba Neb Tetet, Banebdedet, Baneb Djedet, Banaded)

 
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Denderah Decan 33 - Grand Temple Decan 24 (four ram forms rulers of the world, as Ba-spirits),
Ba (Ba spirits),
Harpocrates (son of),
or List of Netjeru.
    Banebdjedet a local ram deity of Djedet (Gr. Mendes, modern Tell-el-Ruba) meaning "the Spirit, the Lord of Djedet."    He incorporated the essence of the world in four forms or "ba" spirits, corresponding to the four first rulers of the world; (Ra, Shu, Geb, Osiris).    At Mendes his spouse was the local fish goddess Hat-Mehit (Hat-mehyt, see Delphinus) a woman with a fish above her head.
    The hieroglyph for a ram is .
    At Mendes (Tell-el-Ruba) he was kept as a sacred ram, worshipped as the incarnation of Ra and Osiris, where they have unearthed a cemetery with sarcophagi for sacred rams.    Originally he was a local god Ba Neb Tetet and was given the solar disc and uraeus (coiled cobra).    When dwelling in Setit, the island of Seheil at the first cataract, which links him to Khnum (the southern ram-god), a time whem Horus and Set were fighting it was the ram-god Ba Neb Tetet who mediated them to the opinion of the goddess Neith.    Over time he has been perverted to occult status and called the "goat of Mendes," a diabolical spirit in Satanic rituals.
    In the "Litany of Re," an ancient sacred text, identifies the ram-deity as the "Lord of the Sky and the "Life of Re."
    In the 6th century B.C., the Saite king Ahmose II (AMasis), constructed four monlithic granite shrines for each of the four spirits.    This became one of the greatest Egyptian complexes to endure throughout the Ptolemeian period.

    This file was created on June 18, 2005.

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