Per-Bas
𓃀𓋴𓄛 𓅡𓐠𓄛 𓅡𓋴𓄛 𓃀𓅭𓇓
Original name: aHA
MDC: bs
Gardiner: Bes
Budge: Bes, Basa
Transliteration: Bes
Coptic: bēs/ ⲃⲏⲥ, bēsi/ⲃⲏⲥⲓ
Akkadian : Biš
Hebrew:
Greek: Bes/ ΒΗϹ, Bes/ βηϛ
Demotic:
English: Bes
Kemetic: Bes
Nubian: Besa? (means cat? No proof, only hit I found was kàdíís/kadiz 'cat')
Alt: Basa, Bisu
Pronounced: /bs/ Bas or Bes ; /bAsA/ Basa; /aHA/ āḥah
Alt Pronunciation : Bēsa
Meaning: /bs/ insider or reveal secret; /bAsA/ panther skin ; /aHA/ fighter
Home: Nubia
Temple: Bahariya Oasis (Late Kingdom)
Nome:
Island know as איבשם/ ʔybšm / ʔibošim/ ebusus apartamentos (assumed ot be his becuase of the lack of poisonous creatures)
Consort
Bastet (Greco-Romen period)
Taeret/ Thoeris
Children
Parents
Siblings
Priest names
Features
Depicted as a beared dwarf facing forward with a lion like main, sometimes a tail and frightening features. Sometimes he is weilding two blades or has a plumed crown.
Symbols
Dwarves
Ostrich feather
Lions
Leopards
Cats
Sanke
Knives
Sa (protection symbol) 𓎃
Tambourine
Harp
Roles
God of newborn babies/ children, pleasure, household/ family, fertility, healing, pregnant women, and war. Figures were kept in the house or amulates with his face were worn for all around protection. He was known for scarign away demons from the house becuase of his face facing forward he was seen as frighting to evil. He was also know for killing snakes. He also is know for music, dancing and sexual pleasure. Tattoes have been found in the NK of him on the thighs of dancer, musicians, sacred prostitues, and servant girls. He was depicted on magic wands, cosmetics, furnature 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)
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
Protects
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
Ref. http://wepwawet.org, A.E. Budge
Temple: Bahariya Oasis (Late Kingdom)
Nome:
Island know as איבשם/ ʔybšm / ʔibošim/ ebusus apartamentos (assumed ot be his becuase of the lack of poisonous creatures)
Consort
Bastet (Greco-Romen period)
Taeret/ Thoeris
Children
Parents
Siblings
Priest names
Features
Depicted as a beared dwarf facing forward with a lion like main, sometimes a tail and frightening features. Sometimes he is weilding two blades or has a plumed crown.
Symbols
Dwarves
Ostrich feather
Lions
Leopards
Cats
Sanke
Knives
Sa (protection symbol) 𓎃
Tambourine
Harp
Roles
God of newborn babies/ children, pleasure, household/ family, fertility, healing, pregnant women, and war. Figures were kept in the house or amulates with his face were worn for all around protection. He was known for scarign away demons from the house becuase of his face facing forward he was seen as frighting to evil. He was also know for killing snakes. He also is know for music, dancing and sexual pleasure. Tattoes have been found in the NK of him on the thighs of dancer, musicians, sacred prostitues, and servant girls. He was depicted on magic wands, cosmetics, furnature 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)
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
Protects
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
Ref. http://wepwawet.org, A.E. Budge
