Egyptian Dwarf Deities Associated with Solar Cult in Ancient Egypt

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Lecturer at Aboukir High Institutes for Tourism, Hotels, and Restoration, Guiding Department, Alexandria

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This study examines the natural relationship between the Ancient Egyptian dwarf gods and the Solar Cult and the solar deities in ancient Egypt. There were two kinds of dwarfs known in ancient Egypt; The African pygmies and the Egyptian dwarfs. The dwarf deities were associated with many of the solar deities in different forms like khepri. From the New Kingdom onward, the dwarfs emerge as popular deities, best known in their forms of Bes and Path-Pataikoi, who are invoked in a host of magical practices to protect the living and the dead. This study aims to find the reason for this association between the dwarf gods and the solar deities by examining the ancient Egyptian religious text and the statuary of those dwarf deities. The result that the study reaches is that the dwarf deities associated with the solar deities as a symbol of regeneration and rejuvenation and rebirth.

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