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    Min (god)

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Min is an ancient Egyptian god whose cult originated in


    predynastic times (4th millennium BCE).[1] He was Min
    represented in many different forms, but was often God of fertility
    represented in male human form, shown with an erect penis
    which he holds in his left hand and an upheld right arm
    holding a flail. As Khem or Min, he was the god of
    reproduction; as Khnum, he was the creator of all things, "the
    maker of gods and men".[2]

    Contents
    1 Myths and function
    2 Family
    3 References
    4 Further reading
    5 External links

    Myths and function


    His cult was strongest in Coptos and Akhmim (Panopolis),
    where in his honour great festivals were held celebrating his
    coming forth with a public procession and presentation of
    The dark-skinned fertility god Min, with an erect
    offerings.[1]His other associations include the eastern desert penis and a flail
    and links to the god Horus. Flinders Petrie excavated two
    Name in
    large statues of Min at Qift which are now in the Ashmolean
    Museum and it is thought by some that they are pre-dynastic. hieroglyphs
    Although not mentioned by name a reference to 'he whose
    arm is raised in the East' in the Pyramid Texts is thought to Major cult center Qift, Akhmim

    refer to Min.[3] Symbol the lettuce, the phallus


    Consort Iabet
    His importance grew in the Middle Kingdom when he Repit
    became even more closely linked with Horus as the deity
    Min-Horus. By the New Kingdom he was also fused with Parents Isis and Osiris
    Amun in the deity Min-Amun-kamutef (Min-Amun - bull of Siblings Horus, Anubis (in some
    his mother). Min's shrine was crowned with a pair of bull accounts)
    horns.[3]
    As the central deity of fertility and possibly orgiastic rites Min became identified by the Greeks with the god
    Pan. One feature of Min worship was the wild prickly lettuce Lactuca virosa and Lactuca serriola of which is
    the domestic version Lactuca sativa (lettuce) which has aphrodisiac and opiate qualities and produce latex when
    cut, possibly identified with semen. He also had connections with Nubia. However, his main centres of worship
    were Qift (Coptos) and Akhmim (Khemmis).

    As a god of male sexual potency, he was honoured during the coronation rites of the New Kingdom, when the
    Pharaoh was expected to sow his seed generally thought to have been plant seeds, although there have been
    controversial suggestions that the Pharaoh was expected to demonstrate that he could ejaculate and thus
    ensure the annual flooding of the Nile. At the beginning of the harvest season, his image was taken out of the
    temple and brought to the fields in the festival of the departure of Min, when they blessed the harvest, and
    played games naked in his honour, the most important of these being the climbing of a huge (tent) pole.

    In Egyptian art, Min was depicted as being covered in shrouds, wearing a crown with feathers, and often
    holding his penis erect in his left hand and a flail (referring to his authority, or rather that of the Pharaohs) in his
    upward facing right hand. Around his forehead, Min wears a red ribbon that trails to the ground, claimed by
    some to represent sexual energy. The symbols of Min were the white bull, a barbed arrow, and a bed of lettuce,
    that the Egyptians believed to be an aphrodisiac, as Egyptian lettuce was tall, straight, and released a milk-like
    substance when rubbed, characteristics superficially similar to the penis.

    Even some war goddesses were depicted with the body of Min (including the phallus), and this also led to
    depictions, ostensibly of Min, with the head of a lioness. Because Min usually was depicted in an ithyphallic
    (with an erect phallus) style, Christians routinely defaced his monuments in temples they co-opted and Victorian
    Egyptologists would take only waist-up photographs of him, or otherwise find ways to cover his protruding
    penis. However, to the ancient Egyptians, Min was not a matter of scandal - they had very relaxed standards of
    nudity: in their warm climate, farmers, servants, and entertainers often worked partially or completely naked,
    and children did not wear any clothes until they came of age.

    In the 19th century, there was an alleged erroneous transcription of the Egyptian for Min as m ("khem"). Since
    Khem was worshipped most significantly in Akhmim, the separate identity of Khem was reinforced, Akhmim
    being understood as simply a corruption of Khem. However, Akhmim is an alleged corruption of m-mnw,
    meaning Shrine of Min, via the demotic form mn.

    Family
    In Hymn to Min it is said:

    "Min, Lord of the Processions, God of the High Plumes, Son of Osiris and Isis, Venerated in Ipu..."

    Min's wives were Iabet and Repyt (Repit).

    References
    1. "Min" (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052783). Encyclopdia Britannica. Encyclopdia Britannica Online.
    2008. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
    2. Bechtel, F. (1907). "Ammon" (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01430d.htm). The Catholic Encyclopedia I. New York:
    Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
    3. Frankfort, Henry (1978). Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society
    and Nature (http://books.google.com/books?id=W-qFZcuGoqUC&pg=RA1-PA189&lpg=RA1-
    PA189&dq=shrine+of+min#PRA1-PA188,M1). University of Chicago Press. pp. 187189.

    Further reading
    McFarlane, A. (1995). The God Min to the End of the Old Kingdom. Australian Center for Egyptology.
    ISBN 9780856686788

    External links
    Media related to Min (god) at Wikimedia Commons
    Site on Min, with some pictures (http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/min.html)

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Min_(god)&oldid=662891542"

    Categories: Egyptian gods Fertility gods

    This page was last modified on 18 May 2015, at 05:57.


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