Per-Minu
𓋊𓅏 𓁤 𓋊𓊾𓁤 𓏠𓈖𓅱𓅆(OK) 𓇋𓏠𓈖𓁤 𓏠𓈖𓋉𓊾𓅆 𓋊𓊾
𓋊𓊾𓏏𓏭mnwty (NK) 𓋊𓊾𓀭 𓋊
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
IPA:
Meaning: possibly 'monuments' from /mnw/ or image of god /mnw/ 𓏠𓈖𓏌𓏌𓏌𓀾𓀭, another possibility
/men/ To remain, to abide, to contiue, to be permanent, to be stable, fixed, abiding, established (Budge)
Home:
Temple:
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, sometimes with dark skin, shown with an erect penis which he holds in his left hand and an upheld right arm holding a flail.
Symbols
Thunderbolt
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
Mummy wrappings
Roles
Sky god who became associated with fertility, who also is the male deity desert region to the east. He was also the god of vegetation (feast of Dais)
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)
Khenemu/Khnum (the maker of gods and men)
AHA
Benen (god of copulation)
nmmi
(Min) kA-mwt.f / Kamephis (Taurus of his mother)
Celebrations
Coming forth
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
ref.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_(god)