Per-Bas
𓃀𓋴𓄛LK-Ptol(1) 𓅡𓐠𓄛(2) 𓃀𓄿𓇓(3) 𓅡𓋴(4) 𓃀𓅭𓇓(5) 𓃀𓄿𓅡𓐠𓏯OK(6) 𓃀𓋴𓁲(7) 𓅡𓏤𓀭𓄛 (8) 𓃀𓐠𓏤𓄛(9)
𓅡𓏤𓊸𓐠𓏤𓏰𓏛𓄛 (10) 𓅡𓊸𓏤𓐠𓏤𓏰𓏛𓃭(11) 𓅡𓅆𓐠𓏤𓄛LK(12)
𓅡𓏤𓐠𓏤𓇋𓇋𓄛𓏤𓏥︀TIP(13)
Demotic 𓅡𓏤𓊸𓐠𓏤𓏰𓏛𓄛
Ref for Hierglyphics and more names Here
MDC : bs, bAsA -𓃀𓅡𓄿𓐠𓏯
Demotic bs (KHWb)
Original name : aHA
Gardiner : Bes
Budge : Bes, Basa , Besu
Transliteration : Bes
Coptic : Bês, Bēs/ ⲃⲏⲥ (Vycichl, Budge, KHWb)(S), Bēsa/ ⲃⲏⲥⲁ (Vycichl)(S, B)
Assyrian and Babylonian : Pessû (needs ref)
Akkadian : Biš
Hebrew : ʔybšm, *ʔibošim/ איבשם (island of Bes)
Greek : Bes/ ΒΗϹ; Bes/ βηϛ (Budge); Bẽs/ βη̃ϛ (Vycichl); Besas/Βησα̃ς ; Bẽsa/Βη̃σα -[Bēsa/ ⲃⲏⲥⲁ](Vycichl);
Bẽs/ Βη̃σ , Bẽsis/ Βη̃σιϛ (KHWb) ; Bẽsioa/Βη̃σ℩οα (Vycichl); Bẽsia/Βη̃σ℩α (Vycichl); Besá/Βησά (modern)
Latin: Besas
Romans : Ebusus
Demotic : Bi-s
Arabic: Wīṣā/ويصا (Vycichl) ; Fāṣā/فاصا (Vycichl)
English : Bes
Kemetic : Bes
Nubian : Besa? (means cat? No proof, only hit I found was kàdíís/kadiz 'cat')
Alt : Basa, Bisu
IPA reconstruction : βes
Pronounced: Bes (traditional), Bas(a)i (more accurate, OK), Bas (more accurate, MK), Bēs (more accurate, LK-Coptic)
Alt Pronunciation : Bisaw (Vycichl); Bēsa, Bisu
Meaning : (Possible) /bsA/𓃀𓎂𓄿𓍢𓏛 "protection" ; /aHA/𓂚𓀜 "fighter" "warrior"
Ref : (Egyptian) E. A. Wallis Budge, An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, 1920 p223a ; Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte by Werner Vycichl, 1983, p31 ; Koptisches Handwörterbuch, by W. Westendor, Heidelberg, 1965, 1977 (KHWb) p27 Here ; (CD Here); (DPDP) ; (Demotic) Koptisches Handwörterbuch, by W. Westendor, Heidelberg,1965, 1977 (KHWb) p27 Here ; (Greek) Budge Dic V1 p205; Koptisches Handwörterbuch, by W. Westendor, Heidelberg, 1965, 1977 (KHWb) p27 Here ; (Coptic) Budge Dic V1 p223 ; Koptisches Handwörterbuch, by W. Westendor, Heidelberg, 1965, 1977 (KHWb) p27 Here
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
(1)-𓃀𓋴𓄛 /Bs/, /bś/ ; (TLA), Wb V1 p476.8 ; Koptisches Handwörterbuch, by W. Westendor, Heidelberg, 1965, 1977
(KHWb) p27 /bś/ Here ; 26thD , (LK) Late Kingdom-(Ptol) Ptolemaic
(1a)-𓃀𓋴𓄜 /Bs/, /bś/ ; (TLA) ; Wb V1 p476.8 ; Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte by Werner
Vycichl,1983, p31; (NK) New Kingdom - 4th century BC –3rd century BC (Ptol) Ptolemaic
(1b)-𓃀𓋴𓄜𓏛 /Bs/ ; (TLA) ; 4th century BC –3rd century BC (Ptol) Ptolemaic
(2)- 𓅡𓐠𓄛
(2a)- 𓅡𓐠𓏤𓄛 /bA-zA/, /Bꜣ~zꜣ / ; (TLA) ; 26thD, (LK) Late Kingdom
(2b)- 𓅡𓏤𓐠𓏤𓄛 /Basa/ ; Budge Dic V1 205
(3)-𓃀𓄿𓇓
(4)- 𓅡𓋴
(4a)- 𓅡𓋴𓄛 /Basa/ ; Budge Dic V1 205
(5)- 𓃀𓅭𓇓 ; Budge Dic V1 223
(6)-𓃀𓄿𓅡𓐠𓏯 /bAsA/ ; (OK) Old Kingdom
(6a)-𓃀𓅡𓄿𓐠𓏤𓏯 /Bi-s/, /bś/ ; Wb V1 p476.8 , Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte by Werner
Vycichl, 1983, p31; WB V1 p476 ; 19thD, (NK) New Kingdom
(7)- 𓃀𓋴𓁲 /bs/ Budge Dic V1 223
(7a)- 𓃀𓋴𓅆 /Bs/ ; (TLA) ; (Ptol) Ptolemaic
(8)- 𓅡𓏤𓀭𓄛 /Bs/ ; (TLA) ; (Ptol) Ptolemaic
(9)- 𓃀𓐠𓏤𓄛 /bs/ ; Budge Dic V1 223
(10)- 𓅡𓏤𓊸𓐠𓏤𓏰𓏛𓄛 /bs/ ; DPDP
(11)- 𓅡𓊸𓏤𓐠𓏤𓏰𓏛𓃭 /bs/ ; DPDP
(12)- 𓅡𓅆𓐠𓏤𓄛 /Bs/ ; 30thD, (LK) Late Kingdom
(13)- 𓅡𓏤𓐠𓏤𓇋𓇋𓄛𓏤𓏥︀ /bA-sA/ ; (TLA) ; 21stD, (TIP) Third Intermediate Period
(KHWb) p27 /bś/ Here ; 26thD , (LK) Late Kingdom-(Ptol) Ptolemaic
(1a)-𓃀𓋴𓄜 /Bs/, /bś/ ; (TLA) ; Wb V1 p476.8 ; Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte by Werner
Vycichl,1983, p31; (NK) New Kingdom - 4th century BC –3rd century BC (Ptol) Ptolemaic
(1b)-𓃀𓋴𓄜𓏛 /Bs/ ; (TLA) ; 4th century BC –3rd century BC (Ptol) Ptolemaic
(2)- 𓅡𓐠𓄛
(2a)- 𓅡𓐠𓏤𓄛 /bA-zA/, /Bꜣ~zꜣ / ; (TLA) ; 26thD, (LK) Late Kingdom
(2b)- 𓅡𓏤𓐠𓏤𓄛 /Basa/ ; Budge Dic V1 205
(3)-𓃀𓄿𓇓
(4)- 𓅡𓋴
(4a)- 𓅡𓋴𓄛 /Basa/ ; Budge Dic V1 205
(5)- 𓃀𓅭𓇓 ; Budge Dic V1 223
(6)-𓃀𓄿𓅡𓐠𓏯 /bAsA/ ; (OK) Old Kingdom
(6a)-𓃀𓅡𓄿𓐠𓏤𓏯 /Bi-s/, /bś/ ; Wb V1 p476.8 , Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte by Werner
Vycichl, 1983, p31; WB V1 p476 ; 19thD, (NK) New Kingdom
(7)- 𓃀𓋴𓁲 /bs/ Budge Dic V1 223
(7a)- 𓃀𓋴𓅆 /Bs/ ; (TLA) ; (Ptol) Ptolemaic
(8)- 𓅡𓏤𓀭𓄛 /Bs/ ; (TLA) ; (Ptol) Ptolemaic
(9)- 𓃀𓐠𓏤𓄛 /bs/ ; Budge Dic V1 223
(10)- 𓅡𓏤𓊸𓐠𓏤𓏰𓏛𓄛 /bs/ ; DPDP
(11)- 𓅡𓊸𓏤𓐠𓏤𓏰𓏛𓃭 /bs/ ; DPDP
(12)- 𓅡𓅆𓐠𓏤𓄛 /Bs/ ; 30thD, (LK) Late Kingdom
(13)- 𓅡𓏤𓐠𓏤𓇋𓇋𓄛𓏤𓏥︀ /bA-sA/ ; (TLA) ; 21stD, (TIP) Third Intermediate Period
