Per-Mai-Ḥesa
𓌳𓎛𓎿𓋴 𓌳𓁹𓎛𓊃𓅭𓃬 𓌳𓄿𓎛𓎿𓋴𓁻 𓃬𓎿𓁻
𓅖𓃬𓁻𓀭 𓌳𓊃𓎛𓄂
MDC : mAi-HsA, mA-HsA, mA(i)-Hsw, mA-Hs
Gardiner: mꜢ ḥsꜢ
Budge: Ma-ḥes
Alt Egyptian: MꜢḥs
Transliteration: Mahes, Maahes
Coptic:
Hebrew:
Arabic: Mahs / ماحس
Greek: Mihos /Μιχός, Maahes /Μάαχες, Miôs /Μίος,
Miysis/Mysis/Myusis Μίυσις, Mahesh /Μαχές, Maihes /Μάιχες, Miys
Latin : Maahes
Demotic:
English: Mahes
Kemetic:
Alt: Mihos, Miôs, Maihes, Miysis, Maahes
Pronounced: Maḥes, Mai-ḥesa
Meaning: Fierce lion /mAi-Hs(A)/
Gardiner: mꜢ ḥsꜢ
Budge: Ma-ḥes
Alt Egyptian: MꜢḥs
Transliteration: Mahes, Maahes
Coptic:
Hebrew:
Arabic: Mahs / ماحس
Greek: Mihos /Μιχός, Maahes /Μάαχες, Miôs /Μίος,
Miysis/Mysis/Myusis Μίυσις, Mahesh /Μαχές, Maihes /Μάιχες, Miys
Latin : Maahes
Demotic:
English: Mahes
Kemetic:
Alt: Mihos, Miôs, Maihes, Miysis, Maahes
Pronounced: Maḥes, Mai-ḥesa
Meaning: Fierce lion /mAi-Hs(A)/
Home:
Temple: Taremu, Per-Bast at Bubastis, Hwt-Hr temple at Dendera
Cult: Iunet at Dendera,
Meroë, Saba Ancient, Medewi or Bedewi Meroitic, Meruwah مرواه and Meruwi مروى, Meróē Μερόη Ancient Greek
Nome:
11th Nome of Lower Egypt:
Taremu (City of fish) Egyptian and Coptic, Leontoplis Λεόντων πόλις (city of Lions) Greek, el-Muqdam (mound of the city) Arabic, Leontos Latin
18th Nome of Lower Egypt: Am-khent
𓅡𓊨𓏏𓊖
Per-Bast(et) (House of Bast) Egyptian, Bubastis Βούβαστις (House of Bast) Greek, Py-Bst (Phibeseth ) פי-בסת Hebrew, Tell-Basta (House of Bast) Arabic
6th Nome Upper Egypt:
Iunet Ancient times, tA-ynt-nTrt (She of the divine pillar) Egyptian, Nikentori or Nitentori (Willow Earth) Alt Egyptian name, Tentyra Greek, Dandarah دندرة Arabic, Dendera English
Consort
Children
Parents
Ptah
Sekhmet (Upper Egypt)
Alternative Parentage
Bastet and Ra (Lower Egypt)
Bastet and Ptah (Lower Egypt)
Bastet and Tem (Lower Egypt)
Siblings
Nefertum
Priest names
Features
Lion with headdress of twin cobras or double crown of Egypt, or the atef crown welding knives. Described as having fierce eyes.
Symbols
Wards
Knives
Lotuses,
lion
Ma'at
Roles
God of war, devourer of the wicked, protector of the innocent, weather. Greeks associated him with storms and darkness.
Hybrid gods
wsr-mAHs/Osiris-Mios
Connection to other gods
Apedemak (worshiped by the Meroitic peoples inhabiting Nubia)
Nefertem
Offering items
Blades
feather
lions statues
red wine
beer died red
red meat
red, gold, green
scarlet Amber
Other names
Epitaphs
aA pHty – He with great strength
dSr brwy.fy – Whose eyes are red
iry ra--Eye of Ra
mAi-xnx- Living lion
naS dniwt – He with the loud roar
nb xAst – The Lord of the Foreign Lands
nTr aA m bAst – The Great God in Bubastis
sA bAstt-- Son of Bastet
wnp sbi m hh.f – Who stabs the rebels with his fiery breath
xw wr – The great protector
xw xmw r xww – Who protects the sanctuaries from evil
Lord of Slaughter
Wielder of the Knife
Red Lord
Avenger of Wrongs
Ref.wepwawet.org, www.landofpyramids.org/mihos.htm