GOD NEPRI IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION

Document Type : Review Article

Author

Lecturer, Guidance dept., High Institute of Tourism and Hotels-Abu-Keer, Alexandria, Egypt.

Abstract

One of seasonal deities in ancient Egypt was god Nepri, god of grains and germination. This
paper aims at highlighting this deity which there was no monograph about him as yet. This will
be through some religious texts and representations which are related to this deity. God Nepri
played an important role in Egyptian religion, this fact is confirmed by coffin texts, book of the
dead and the Imy-dwAt. Npri's role in the, book of the dead in terms of providing the dead with
food and it is a limited role comparing to his roles in the coffin texts which were linked to
resurrection and life that he grants for the dead.

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