SOPED – This deity was the hawk-headed god who guarded the roadway that connected Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt. At the road’s beginning in Lower Egypt stood a temple devoted to Soped, and at its terminus in Upper Egypt stood a temple to the goddess Hathor.
Soped was also considered the god of the East, and served as one of the deities who would periodically be called upon to support one of the sky goddess Nut’s four limbs – one at each of the four cardinal directions – on those rare occassions when Nut’s body was in danger of falling. This was done to assist Shu, the god of the air, who forever supported Nut and kept her separated from her husband, the Earth god Geb.
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On a seperate note – went out and it began to drizzle at which point I ran inside remembering the whole Indian wwe in the sky thing.
LMAO That is hilarious! Sorry it took so long to respond!
I just started reading a history of African civiizations. Baladeer, I was shocked to learn that the Egyptians got all their gods from another race of people of previous distinction. You never mentioned that tid-bit. In fact I’d never heard such a thing before. Did you know that? You must have.
Hi there, Sara! Yep, I am familiar with it but I didn’t happen to mention it because it’s pretty standard in mythology. No belief system springs from a vacuum. It springs from previous belief systems in the region and also from appropriating elements of belief systems of other cultures they come into contact with. The process is called syncretism. Even the big three religions have done it. Zoroastrianism predates Christianity, Islam and Judaism and all three of those belief systems borrowed heavily from it and from other regional mythology – for Christians it was Zoroastrianism,Gnosticism, Judaism, Mithraism and pretty much ALL of the Mystery Religions of the region. For Judaism, in addition to Zoroastrianism it was Canaanite and Ugaritic myths, For Islam it was Zoroastrianism, Persian mythology and the countless deities of the Arabian peninsula about whom so little is known thanks to Islam’s ruthless efficiency in wiping out those Pre-Islamic beliefs.
And for other similarities to how the Egyptians appropriated earlier belief systems: the Romans did nothing but RENAME the Greek deities and absorb their mythology whole (Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek Herakles, Mercury is the Roman name for the Greek Hermes, Minerva is the Roman name for the Greek Athena, etc.) The dual-faced god Janus (the god January is named after) is regarded as virtually the ONLY purely Roman deity. The Aztecs appropriated the myths of their predecessors like the Toltecs and the Olmecs. Huitzilopochtli is considered the ONLY purely Aztec deity. … The Greeks themselves appropriated many of the deities of the Hittites. In my entry on the Navajo war god Nayanazgeni taking on the Anaye I often mentioned how the Navajo appropriated elements of that myth from other tribes they came into contact with during their wanderings. The process is ongoing, too, because Mormonism is basically a fusion of Christianity and Rosicrucianism. (Before any Mormons send me outraged e-mails read the 1620’s Rosicrucian work titled Christianopolis first to see where Joseph Smith got a lot of his ideas) The beliefs of the Hare Khrishna folks are a fusion of Christianity and Hindu myths, with Jesus presented as an incarnation of Vishnu. Voodoo beliefs are a fusion of Yoruban, Fon, Christian and Caribbean belief systems.
To go back to the current Big Three religions, their belief in Savior Figures was influenced by Zoroastrianism. The Jewish notions of a Messiah, the Christian belief about Jesus Christ being a Gnosticized version of that Messiah and Islam’s savior figure called the Mahdi are largely appropriated from Zoroastrianism’s savior figure Soter. Hell, the study of savior figures in all the world’s mythologies is even called Soteriology in honor of Soter since he’s the oldest surviving KNOWN savior figure. And please don’t feel that I’m lecturing you with this. You know how dorky I am about mythology and I get all excited when I get to answer a question like this.
I loved this answer: it gave me so much to consider. Very interesting, reading indeed.
Thank you, Sara! When I saw how much I had written I got worried that you might think I was trying to give a boring rant.
u r so awesome! i learn so much about mythology at ur blog!
Thank you! I appreciate it!
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u find such intriguing out of the way gods.
Thanks! I try!
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