Per-Minu
𓋊𓅏OK 𓁤MK 𓋊𓊾𓁤 𓏠𓈖𓅱𓅆(OK) 𓇋𓏠𓈖𓁤 𓏠𓈖𓋉𓊾𓅆NK 𓋊𓊾
𓋊𓊾𓏏𓏭mnwty (NK) 𓋊𓊾𓀭 𓋊
(Demotic)
MDC: mnw
Gardiner:
Budge: Mnw, Menu
Transliteration: Min
Demotic : mn
Coptic: Min/ⲙⲓⲛ, Mēini/ⲙⲏⲓⲛⲓ (B); Mēein/ⲙⲏⲉⲓⲛ , Moun /ⲙⲟⲩⲛ (F); Mēna/ ⲙⲏⲛⲁ ,
Moone /Ⲙⲟⲟⲛⲉ ?, Mine /Ⲙⲓⲛⲉ?
Hebrew:
Ancient Greek: Mēnâs/ Μηνᾶς
Greek: Mounis /μουνις, Mon/ Μον, Minis/μινιϛ < Φαμινιϛ/pA-min/ ⲡⲁⲙⲓⲛ ; Minás/ Μηνάς
Demotic:
Arabic: Mīn/ مين , Mīna/ مينا
English:
Kemetic: Min
Alt: mnwty
Pronounced: Min or Minu, (possibly) Miun
IPA:
Meaning: (possibly) /mnw/𓏠𓈖𓏌𓏲𓀾𓅆𓏫 "monuments" (or) /mnw/𓏠𓈖𓏌𓏌𓏌𓀾𓀭 "image of god" , (another possibility)
/mn/𓏠𓈖𓏛 "dwell in" , "vested in" , "be fixed" , "remain" , possibly /mnw/𓏠𓏌𓏌𓏌𓆭𓆭𓆭 "trees" , "plantation"
Home: local deity in Koptos, and Achmim as "Lord of Ipu, the strong Horus"
Nome: Gebtu [Egyptian]/ Keft Ⲕⲉϥⲧ [Coptic]/ Koptos Κόπτος [Greek]/ Qift [Arabic] city in Horuy/Harawî (City of two hawks) Fifth Nome Upper Egypt,
Khent-min or Apu [Egyptian]/ Akhmim أخميم [Arabic]/ Khmin [Coptic]/ Khemmis and Panopolis [Greek] 19th Nome of Upper Egypt
Nubia
Consort
Iabet Auset/Isis , Iabtet, Iab, Abet, Abtet, Ab (Gebtu/ Qift)
Repat (Khent-min/ Panopolis)
Children
Parents
Hut-Horet-Auset/ Hathor-Isis (mother)
Wesir/ Osiris (father)
Alternative Parents
Khenti-iabtt form of Hut-Hor (mother)
Siblings
Horu/ Horus (brother)
Anpu/ Anubis (brother)
Priest names
Minu Hem (servant of Minu)
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Features
Often represented in male human form mummy wrapped, with dark or blake skin (mummified skin, the color black stood for fertility), shown with an erect penis which he holds in his left hand and an upheld right arm holding a flail; Lion-headed god of fertility with a sun disc with arm rasied with a whip (Greco Romen)
Symbols
Thunderbolt
Bull (white)
Bull horns
White Bull (Min-Kamutef)
Wild prickly lettuce Lactuca virosa, Lactuca serriola and Lactuca sativa, regarded as aphrodisiac symbolic of semen
Phallus
Flail
Moon (born every morning in the eastern Egyptian desert)
Mummy wrappings
Lettuce (sacred plant)
Green sandstone (bekhen)
Roles
Rain god who was associated with fertility and harvest, who also is the male deity of the eastern desert region. He was the god of vegetation (feast of Dais), protected caravan routes to the Red Sea, travelers on journeys, "prospector of precious stones in the eastern Egyptian deserts ",God of miners, bull of the ninth, lord of the Eastern Desert.
Hybrid gods
Min-Horu
Min-Amen-ka-Mut-ef (Min-Amun Ka bull of his mother)
Min-Amun (Koptos) or Amen-Min (more rare Thebes, Koptos)
Connection to other gods
Horu
Pan /Πάν (Greek)
Other forms
Khem (God of procreation, creator of all things, the maker of gods and men)
Khenemu/Khnum (the maker of gods and men)
AHA
Benen (god of copulation)
nmmi
(Min) kA-mwt.f / Kamephis (Taurus of his mother)
Combo gods
Amun-Re-Kamutef "Amun-Re, his mother's bull" (Min combined with Amun-Re) > (became) Kamutef “his mother's bull”
Min-Kamutef "Min, his mother's bull" (beginning 18th dynasty) > (became) Min-Amun and Amun-Min "Amun-Min, his mother's bull" (worshiped since 18th dynasty) > (became) Amenemope/imn-m-ipt "Amun of Karnak"
Celebrations
Coming forth "Coptos and Akhmīm (Panopolis)" (public processions and presentation of offerings. The lettuce was his sacred plant.)
Peret Menu 30th day of the month
Offering items
prickly lettuce
Two white feathers
Aphrodisiacs
Leaflike fan
Wheat
Protects
Other names
Amsi/imsy (bearer of scepter)
Epitaphs
fAi-a =God of the lifted arm
Hqsy =Fisher
kA mwt.f = Bull of his mother
minmin =Minu-Amun bull of his mother
mnw-gbtyw(y) =Minu the Copti
ms-n Ast = Born of Auste/Isis
nTr aA = Great god
qAi Swty = Tall of plumes
sA wsr = Son of Wesir/Osiris
he whose arm is raised in the East
white bull Min-Kamutef
Maker of gods and men
He whose arm is raised in the East
ref.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_(god)
