. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 63. Old Types of Bes from theTwelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties 62 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. Fig. 64. Bes with Flowers and nurses, and this explains why he becomes the companion(sometimes the husband) of Ueret-Epet as a protector of child-birth, etc.^- He not only strangles or devours serpents, but also catches boars, lions, and ante-lopes with his hands. His imageon the wooden headrests forsleeping, or over the door, etc.,keeps away not merely noxiousanimals, but also evil of him in Ro-man times as brandishing knivesor as a warrior in hea
. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 63. Old Types of Bes from theTwelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties 62 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. Fig. 64. Bes with Flowers and nurses, and this explains why he becomes the companion(sometimes the husband) of Ueret-Epet as a protector of child-birth, etc.^- He not only strangles or devours serpents, but also catches boars, lions, and ante-lopes with his hands. His imageon the wooden headrests forsleeping, or over the door, etc.,keeps away not merely noxiousanimals, but also evil of him in Ro-man times as brandishing knivesor as a warrior in heavy armour(Plate n, 2), seem to show him Inthis same protective function. Ashis name cannot be traced be-yond 1500 B. c, and as his exactpicture Is not found with fullcertainty before 2000, while hisrepresentation en face Is rather unusual in Egyptian art,^^ ithas often been supposed that he was a foreign god. Never-theless, passages describing him as coming from the east,Master of the Orient, or localizing him at Bu-gem (or Bu-gemet) ^^ In eastern Nubia, evidently do not point to his origi-nal local worship, but merel
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