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Abstract
AbstractIn Ancient Egypt, the Egyptian deities played an important role in the Egyptian pantheon. Some of them have a distinguishing feature from others. Most of these gods are in origin the children of others. They have fantastic features of childhood, usually depicted in youthful human form, also as an infant, or as a child, sitting or standing, wearing the side-lock of youth, and putting the index finger in the mouth. In addition, they have a divine family consisting of (father, mother, and son), played a major role in cultic centers, received prayers, and were called for help by their worshippers.
They were venerated as gods of fertility, protectors of the dead, and healers of the living people. They were also closely linked to the divine conception and birth of the king in Ancient Egyptian history. Although these gods are represented with childish features like the side-lock of childhood and putting the finger on the mouth. Some of them were added to the child gods because of their relationships with other gods, where they were described as the children of the gods.
According to the representations of child gods in the walls of the Egyptian temples, they are always male, but there are two cases of a female child god, the first one is Tefnut, who is represented as a child god in the temple of Dendera accompanying her son Chu, where they are kneeling, and putting the finger in the mouth, while the second is goddess Isis who is represented as a child in an ostraca found near the temple of Dendera, where Isis is depicted in the placenta of goddess Nut, where she is represented putting the forefinger of her left hand to her mouth.
In the Old Kingdom child gods are mentioned in the texts, and widely represented in the New Kingdom, but they gained the highest peak in the time of the Graeco-Roman period.
It is important to mention that, some of them are self-developing and not born by others like sun child, who represented the child who emerged from the sky goddess in the morning and became an old man in the night, providing the basis for the concept of the “child deities and is considered the famous model of the child gods. While, Harpocrates represented a generational transition from father to son as a legitimate heir, and is
considered the most prominent of the child gods and resembles the second model of the child gods. On the other hand, Nefrtum is considered the last child god, who resembles the blue Louts flower that closes during the night, and rebirth at the time of sunrise means that he has been identified with the newborn sun god. That makes him one of the Ancient Egyptian child gods.
Although child gods are represented with childhood features, some of them were added to the child gods according to their relations with other deities like Shmanefer and Tithos. They are mentioned as the sons of Neith in the temple of Esna.
In the time of Graeco-Roman period child gods were very popular, scenes represented those in groups like those in the temple of Dendera, especially the scene of representation of seven child gods sitting together in the mammisi of Armant.
According to the representation of the child gods, as a child or youth, some special features of child gods, they were represented in the temples as a child with animal’s head like Hours-Nefer, with a lioness head, and khonsu with a falcon head.
from studying the child gods in Ancient Egypt until the end of the Greaco-Roman period, they are represented in several temples, but some of them are rarely represented in temples.
Research Methodology
The Objective of the Thesis:
The study aims at studying the iconography of the child deities in the Temples of Ancient Egypt till the end of the Greaco-Roman period in Egypt in order to lay emphasis on their forms and epithets.
This could be considered as an attempt to make a study to the child gods and an iconographical study in a number of representations of the child gods in the Temples; However, the documents may not cover all the representations of the gods in the Ancient Egyptian Temples until the Greaco-Roman periods, But the selected documents in the study may give a good idea about the child gods and their iconography.
The documents are arranged according to the chronological order of the temples from the earliest to the most recent.