Per-Bas
𓃀𓋴𓄛 𓅡𓐠𓄛 𓃀𓄿𓇓 𓅡𓋴 𓃀𓅭𓇓 𓃀𓄿𓅡𓐠𓏯OK 𓃀𓋴𓁲 𓃀𓋴𓄜 𓃀𓅡𓄿𓐠𓏯
𓅡𓏤𓐠𓏤𓄛Budge 𓅡𓋴𓄛Budge
Original name: aHA
MDC: bs
Gardiner: Bes
Budge: Bes, Basa , Besu
Transliteration: Bes
Coptic: bēs/ ⲃⲏⲥ
Assyrian and Babylonian: Pessû (needs ref)
Akkadian: Biš
Hebrew: ʔybšm, *ʔibošim/ איבשם (island of Bes)
Greek: Bes/ ΒΗϹ, Bes/ βηϛ , Besa/Βησά (modern)
Romans: Ebusus
Demotic:
English: Bes
Kemetic: Bes
Nubian: Besa? (means cat? No proof, only hit I found was kàdíís/kadiz 'cat')
Alt: Basa, Bisu
Pronounced: Bes (traditional), Bas(a)i (more accurate, OK), Bas (more accurate, MK), Bēs (more accurate, LK-Coptic)
Alt Pronunciation : Bēsa, Bisu
Meaning: /bs/𓃀𓋴𓆛𓏛 "secret" , "enter" ,"reveal secret" ; /bsA/𓃀𓎂𓄿𓍢𓏛 "protection" ; /bsi/𓃀𓋴𓇋𓆛𓂻 "come forth","extend", "introduce", "initiate" ; /aHA/𓂚𓀜 "fighter" "warrior"
Home: Sudan, Nubia
Temple: Bahariya Oasis (Late Kingdom)
Nome:
Island know as איבשם/ ʔybšm / ʔibošim/ ebusus apartamentos (assumed to be his because of the lack of poisonous creatures)
Consort
Bastet (Greco-Romen period)
Taweret / Thoeris
Beset/Bēsi/ⲃⲏⲥⲓ (female counter part)
Children
Parents
Siblings
Female counter part
Beset
Priest names
Features
Depicted as a bearded dwarf facing forward with a lion like main, sometimes a tail and frightening features. Sometimes he is wielding two blades or has a plumed crown.
Symbols
Dwarves
Ostrich feather
Lions
Leopards
Cats
Snakes
Knives
Sa (protection symbol) 𓎃
Tambourine
Harp
lyre
Roles
God of newborn babies/ children, pleasure, household/ family, fertility, healing, pregnant women, and war. Figures were kept in the house or amulets with his face were worn for all around protection. He was known for scaring away demons from the house because of his face facing forward he was seen as frighting to evil. He was also know for killing snakes and protecting from dangerous desert animals. He is know for music, dancing and sexual pleasure known as the god of whims and merrymaking . Tattoos have been found in the NK of him on the thighs of dancers, musicians, sacred prostitutes, and servant girls. He was depicted on magic wands, cosmetics, furniture and mirrors. He was known for making children laugh and it was said to be Bes making funny faces if a baby laughed for no reason.
Hybrid gods
Connection to other gods
Āḥa (orginally know as aHA) (warrior god)
Taweret
Hut-Hor/ Hathor
Ra
Amun
Min
Horu/ Horus (Hor-pa-Khered/ Young Horu face of Bes)
Reshep
Celebrations
Offering items
Ostrich feather
Lion figures
Knives
Moss agate/ Merkaba (healing, ba and ka)
Malachite/ mfkAt/ (protection)
Amazonite (good luck, fertility, reproduction made into ammulates)
Aventurine (buried their dead with quartz upon the forehead guide the departed safely, Ba and Ka )
Ebony/ hbny/ ébenos ἔβενος
Sandalwood
Blue
Green
Red
Tambourine
Mirrors
Perfume vases
Protects/Patron
dancers
Other names
aHA-- fighter 'demon' (orginally know as)
HAyt-- nakedness?
HAty--fighter
HAy 𓇉𓄿𓇌𓁲, 𓇉𓄿𓇌, 𓇉𓄿𓇌𓀭 -- dwarf ?
HAyt 𓇉𓇌𓏏𓁲-- dwarf ?
Epitaphs
anx m fnT -life of snake
HAy --protector
nb pwnt--Lord of Punt
Coming from the Divine Land
Lord of Nubia
Ref. http://wepwawet.org, A.E. Budge
Temple: Bahariya Oasis (Late Kingdom)
Nome:
Island know as איבשם/ ʔybšm / ʔibošim/ ebusus apartamentos (assumed to be his because of the lack of poisonous creatures)
Consort
Bastet (Greco-Romen period)
Taweret / Thoeris
Beset/Bēsi/ⲃⲏⲥⲓ (female counter part)
Children
Parents
Siblings
Female counter part
Beset
Priest names
Features
Depicted as a bearded dwarf facing forward with a lion like main, sometimes a tail and frightening features. Sometimes he is wielding two blades or has a plumed crown.
Symbols
Dwarves
Ostrich feather
Lions
Leopards
Cats
Snakes
Knives
Sa (protection symbol) 𓎃
Tambourine
Harp
lyre
Roles
God of newborn babies/ children, pleasure, household/ family, fertility, healing, pregnant women, and war. Figures were kept in the house or amulets with his face were worn for all around protection. He was known for scaring away demons from the house because of his face facing forward he was seen as frighting to evil. He was also know for killing snakes and protecting from dangerous desert animals. He is know for music, dancing and sexual pleasure known as the god of whims and merrymaking . Tattoos have been found in the NK of him on the thighs of dancers, musicians, sacred prostitutes, and servant girls. He was depicted on magic wands, cosmetics, furniture and mirrors. He was known for making children laugh and it was said to be Bes making funny faces if a baby laughed for no reason.
Hybrid gods
Connection to other gods
Āḥa (orginally know as aHA) (warrior god)
Taweret
Hut-Hor/ Hathor
Ra
Amun
Min
Horu/ Horus (Hor-pa-Khered/ Young Horu face of Bes)
Reshep
Celebrations
Offering items
Ostrich feather
Lion figures
Knives
Moss agate/ Merkaba (healing, ba and ka)
Malachite/ mfkAt/ (protection)
Amazonite (good luck, fertility, reproduction made into ammulates)
Aventurine (buried their dead with quartz upon the forehead guide the departed safely, Ba and Ka )
Ebony/ hbny/ ébenos ἔβενος
Sandalwood
Blue
Green
Red
Tambourine
Mirrors
Perfume vases
Protects/Patron
dancers
Other names
aHA-- fighter 'demon' (orginally know as)
HAyt-- nakedness?
HAty--fighter
HAy 𓇉𓄿𓇌𓁲, 𓇉𓄿𓇌, 𓇉𓄿𓇌𓀭 -- dwarf ?
HAyt 𓇉𓇌𓏏𓁲-- dwarf ?
Epitaphs
anx m fnT -life of snake
HAy --protector
nb pwnt--Lord of Punt
Coming from the Divine Land
Lord of Nubia
Ref. http://wepwawet.org, A.E. Budge
