82 AMENTET winged form, crowned with the tesher crown, occurs in bronze : we do not remember to have seen a statuette of the woman type. Nekhen, Genii of. The Genii of Nekhen appear to have been jackal gods whose function was to watch over … and protect the cities of Pe and Nekhen ; and probably they were closely linked with the hawk-headed Urshij or Watchers, who were also genii or guardian gods of those cities. Almost nothing is known of them, however, and their present interest lies chiefly in the fact that porcelain
Animal worship · Amulets
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