Hapi

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This article is about the funerary deity. Hapi is also an alternate spelling for Hapy, a Nile god.

Hapi in hieroglyphs

Hapi was one of the Four sons of Horus depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the Underworld. Hapi is depicted as a baboon-headed mummified human on funerary furniture and especially the canopic jars that held the organs of the deceased. Hapi's jar held the lungs. Hapi was also the protector of the North. Hapi was assigned to a tutelary protective goddess Nephthys.

[edit] See also

• Four Sons of Horus – in-depth treatment of the Four Sons and their interrelationships.