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River and land
Nepri
nprjGrainThe living crop
How it changed
The grain itself made a god, and a deliberately paradoxical one: he is cut down, buried and comes up again, which made him easy to fold into the Osiris pattern of death and return. The Coffin Texts have the dead identify with him, living because he lives and lying down because he dies.
Cult centre
None; honoured at the harvest rather than in a temple
Best attested
Middle Kingdom onward
Family
- ParentsRenenutet
Son of the snake goddess Renenutet.
Epithets
- “The living one who perishes and returns”
How to recognise the figure
A man whose body is dotted with grains, sometimes shown as a child of the harvest.
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