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| rdfs:comment | - Nefertem was an Egyptian god of beauty, healing and creation. He would later be assigned as the child of Ptah, a creator god, and Sekhmet. He was often portrayed with a lily. The centre of his cult was the city of Memphis.
- Nefertem was the Egypitan god of healing, the lotus, beauty, perfumes and aromatherapy, as well as being a minor sun god. He is the son of Ptah and Sekhmet (or Bast) and grandson of Ra. His name can be translated as "beautiful Atum" or "beautiful one who closes". Memphis was the main city where he was worshiped.
- "Rise like Nefertem from the blue water lily, to the nostrils of Ra (the creator and sungod), and come forth upon the horizon each day." As the power of Memphis grew, their chief god, Ptah, was said to be the original creator, and thus of all the other gods, including any lesser creators, who create the remaining gods having first being created by Ptah. Consequently Nefertum came to be merely the son of Ptah, rather than a creator of light proper. As son of Ptah, it was said that either the lioness-deities Sekhmet, or Bastet (whichever was considered wife of Ptah), was his 'mother'. As a god now only associated with the highly aromatic blue water-lily rather than creation, he became a god of perfume and luck.
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| Alias | - God of Healing and Beauty
- God of Perfume and Aromatherapy
- God of the Lotus Flower
- Protector of Upper and Lower Egypt
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| abstract | - "Rise like Nefertem from the blue water lily, to the nostrils of Ra (the creator and sungod), and come forth upon the horizon each day." As the power of Memphis grew, their chief god, Ptah, was said to be the original creator, and thus of all the other gods, including any lesser creators, who create the remaining gods having first being created by Ptah. Consequently Nefertum came to be merely the son of Ptah, rather than a creator of light proper. As son of Ptah, it was said that either the lioness-deities Sekhmet, or Bastet (whichever was considered wife of Ptah), was his 'mother'. As a god now only associated with the highly aromatic blue water-lily rather than creation, he became a god of perfume and luck. In art, Nefertum is usually depicted as a beautiful young man having blue water-lily flowers around his head. As the son of Bastet, he also sometimes has the head of a lion or is a lion or cat reclining. Nefertem was associated both with the scent of the blue water-lily flower and its supposed narcotic effect (widely presumed, but yet untested scientifically). The ancient Egyptians often carried small statuettes of him as good-luck charms.
- Nefertem was an Egyptian god of beauty, healing and creation. He would later be assigned as the child of Ptah, a creator god, and Sekhmet. He was often portrayed with a lily. The centre of his cult was the city of Memphis.
- Nefertem was the Egypitan god of healing, the lotus, beauty, perfumes and aromatherapy, as well as being a minor sun god. He is the son of Ptah and Sekhmet (or Bast) and grandson of Ra. His name can be translated as "beautiful Atum" or "beautiful one who closes". Memphis was the main city where he was worshiped.
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