EGYPTIAN TOURISM FOR ALL: The god of the nile Hapi

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was a god of great importance among the gods in the old egyptian field .he was the god who drove the Nile, with high water or low water. In some ancient texts the god Hapi was represented as being a destructive force when it was a heavy quantity of water making a horrible flooding that destroyed houses and damaged crops in the fields, in this case the ancient Egyptians suffered from hunger because they had to wait the retreating of the water to grow again, and unemployment also suffered nearly three months during the flood. Hapi has both male and female powers, is finally showing his powers .Egipto and was divided into Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, the Nile as just North of the Nile god is crowned with papyrus , and as the god of the Southern Nile River Loto.entonces plants Nile god was masculine and feminine at the same time
The Egyptians had a strong belief that the Nile emerged between two mountains, named QER and Mu-Hapi, between the islands of Elephantine and FILAIE or a cave on the outskirts of Aswan, but had no idea how the result set the flood, for which Ptah was worshiped as the "Father of the Gods" and "Comforter", the ancient Egyptians believed that Hapi lived near the falls, in a cave Bigeh in Aswan, this cave is protected by a fabulous snake, Hapi was with his harem of frog goddesses. It was the idealization of fertility , carrying a tray or a table of offerings, representing the property brought the annual flood into Egypt could also carry two cups to symbolize the two Niles. Its importance was such that he dedicated one of the most beautiful hymns, the Hymn to Hapi, created during the Middle Kingdom.

Is represented as a large bearded man big belly, with blue or green skin and sagging breasts of a woman wearing the only clothes the tightening of the boatmen, sometimes instead of a human head has two opposing goose heads, as it appears in the temple of Seti I in Abidoos. Sometimes wore in her hair and hand a palm branch to track the the years, as the Nile flood, which could be life or death of the Egyptians, are produced annually.
There are many ancient prayers of glorification to Hapi, the Nile god, whom he described as the reason for peace and life, the destroyer of darkness, the watering of the fields in Ra and the creator of grain In the myth of Osiris Hapi was responsible for grabbing the chest containing the body of the slain Osiris to assume the sea to help wife Isis to save the body of Osiris.y helped Isis to find the missing parts of her husband in the texts of the pyramids, Hapi was responsible for more tasks in the underground world including the provision of King Unas with grains and food rejuvenation