#harpocrates

[tridentandtales]

Roman double-faced stela, depicting the god Serapis on one side and an unknown woman (probably the deceased), Harpocrates, and Isis in her snake form on the other

1st - 2nd century CE

Museo Egizio Cat. 7148

[egypt-museum]

Statuette of Isis suckling Harpocrates

Seated figure of Isis suckling Harpocrates (identifiable with the so-called ‘Isis lactans’ motif).

The goddess is wearing a hathoric crown, consisting of a solar disc with horns resting on a stylised uraeiform modius. She is wearing a tripartite wig decorated with incised vertical streaks and with a stylised vulture headdress.

The goddess is wearing an ankle-length, tight-fitting dress and she has armlets, bracelets and anklets. Isis brings her right hand to her left breast, which is smaller than the right one, while her left hand holds Harpocrates’ head. The feet rest on a hollow square base.

Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. Provenance: Unknown. Old Fund, 1824-1882. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin. Cat. 147

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[im-an-apollogist]

Day 15 - Soul-Entwined but Forgotten

I need this fandom to talk more about them

[alyssamarie-4life]

I just finished reading the scene in The Tyrant's Tomb where Apollo encounters Harpocrates and came out of it craving fanfiction. I'm not sure it would add anything but part of me wanted Apollo to explain he had been taking his trauma out on Harpocrates by showing him his memories of Zeus. Especially because Reyna and Meg can probably see it too like he sees what they project. How would a demigod respond to finding out the leader of the deities they've been fighting for has been abusing his immortal child that they're actually rather fond of? What would Harpocrates think of realizing his bully was never as heartless as he probably seemed back then? Low-key I think if he'd found out back then he would have gone and physically shut Zeus up and the mental image is hilarious

[archaeologicalnews]

Ancient Egyptian mummy masks, tombs and 'god of silence' statue discovered at Saqqara

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a series of tombs dating from about 1,800 to 4,800 years ago, some of which contain colorful mummy masks and even the childlike statue of the god of silence, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

The colorful mummy masks, which would have been worn by the dead, date to the Ptolemaic period (304 to 30 B.C.) and Roman period (29 B.C. to A.D. 641), according to Nozomu Kawai, the director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Civilizations and Cultural Resources at Kanazawa University in Japan, who led the excavations.

The archaeologists also found a small statue showing Harpocrates, a Greek god that looks like a child who is associated with silence, riding a goose. The goose represents "an evil spirit over which the Divine Child triumphs," Kawai told Live Science in an email. Read more.

[brimo5]

Someone influenced by both Egyptian and Greek religions: Yeah, Apollo and Eros are the same god. Haven't you noticed he is holding a bow? It's he companion of Isis？

Or worse, he simply wrote their names together with Harpocrates in Delos without offering any explanation.

[moodyseal]

TOApril Day 4 - Facing the Unknown

Harpocrates and the Sybil of Cumae for day 4!! I hope they're having the time of their lives, wherever they are

[dian-and-the-gods]

Shout out to the lesser known syncretic deities of the hellenistic period, I love y'all:

Serapis (who seems to have been syncretized with Hades/Pluto), lord of the Underworld who arose from Osiris-Apis

Harpocrates, child god of silence, son of Isis and Serapis who arose from the child Horus

Hermanubis, who arose out of the syncretism of Hermes and Anubis

Zeus/Jupiter Ammon, from the syncretism of Zeus and Ammon

Isis in her greco-roman interpretation, wife of Serapis and mother of Harpocrates, commonly shown breastfeeding him. She was syncretized with Aphrodite, Demeter and Persephone

I may make another post like this later