Английская Википедия:Ipy (goddess)
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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox Egyptian deityIpy is an ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility.[1] She is also known as Opet.[2] At Karnak she is called Ipet, and in the Demotic Magical Papyrus, she is called Apet, the mother of fire.[3] [4]
She is depicted as a hippopotamus.[1] Sometimes depicted as a combination of a hippo, crocodile, human, and lion. Usually she is depicted with a lion's head, hippo's body, human arms, and lion feet.[2]
She was also seen as a protector of the pharaoh and invoked as mother.[5] In Theban theology she is the mother of Osiris.[4]
She is possibly a forerunner of Taweret.[6]
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