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A granite statuette of lion god Mahes protecting a perfume jar , Brooklyn Museum, 27 th dynasty After J.D.Cooney,'' the lions of Leontopolis'', Brooklyn Museum Bulletin ,Vol. 15, No. 2 , (winter, 1954), fig. 1

A granite statuette of lion god Mahes protecting a perfume jar , Brooklyn Museum, 27 th dynasty After J.D.Cooney,'' the lions of Leontopolis'', Brooklyn Museum Bulletin ,Vol. 15, No. 2 , (winter, 1954), fig. 1

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... as protecting a sacred jar of the temple. He appears standing on his back paws and grasping the perfume jar with his frontal paws. He is associated here with God Nefertem, god of perfume, who was also responsible for destroying the forces of evil the same as Mahes, who was represented while grasping the enemies with his frontal paws. 40 ( Fig. 13-14) ...
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... associaated with Nefertem, as both of them are sons of goddess Sekhmet. Mahes appears wearing the headdress of Nefertem fig. 11 and in some scenes he appears with lotus flower and two bud to his back (the symbol of god Nefertem ). Mahes appeared in some statues as a lion protecting the perfume jar relating him with Nerfertem (the god of perfume). Fig. 13-14 Apdemak: there is a great identification between god Apedemak and Mahes in the shape and the function as both of them is known as a warrior, a protective, and a solar god, in addition that the cult of Mahes later spread southwards to Debod ...
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... as protecting a sacred jar of the temple. He appears standing on his back paws and grasping the perfume jar with his frontal paws. He is associated here with God Nefertem, god of perfume, who was also responsible for destroying the forces of evil the same as Mahes, who was represented while grasping the enemies with his frontal paws. 40 ( Fig. 13-14) ...
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... associaated with Nefertem, as both of them are sons of goddess Sekhmet. Mahes appears wearing the headdress of Nefertem fig. 11 and in some scenes he appears with lotus flower and two bud to his back (the symbol of god Nefertem ). Mahes appeared in some statues as a lion protecting the perfume jar relating him with Nerfertem (the god of perfume). Fig. 13-14 Apdemak: there is a great identification between god Apedemak and Mahes in the shape and the function as both of them is known as a warrior, a protective, and a solar god, in addition that the cult of Mahes later spread southwards to Debod ...