Egyptian god of the sea

Caburus

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Who in Egyptian mythology would be closest to the Greek god Poseidon, god of the sea, earthquakes and horses?
 

Alejandro

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Apparently a certain Wadj-wer, whose name means the "Great Green," might have been a personification of the Mediterranean Sea (the same sea which belonged to and was ruled over by Poseidon, and which, to an extent, Poseidon personified). It is also argued, however, that Wadj-wer rather represented the large lakes and lagoons of the northern Nile Delta region. Water-deities in ancient Egypt are almost invariably associated with the River Nile rather than any other water body, and so the prominence borne by Poseidon would be equivalent to that possessed by a Nile-god.
 

Myrddin

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Who in Egyptian mythology would be closest to the Greek god Poseidon, god of the sea, earthquakes and horses?
There is also Nun and Naunet, the god and goddess of primal waters. Together, they contained the possibility of creation and had created a mound on which the creator would be able to appear.

E. M.
 

Native

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- It is a common problem how to connect the right mythological telling to the right object or phenomenon.

Many deities have their remembrance-temples placed on the different locations on the Earth, but in most cases the deities themselves belongs to the sky above the Earth. This goes especially for deities who are closely connected to the Creation Stories as in the case with the primeval Nun and Naunet and the Greek god Poseidon.
The Egyptian God and Goddess "of the Sea" must therefore belong to the "primeval waters" which excisted even before the Solar System was created - and therefore can this telling have nothing to do with any rivers on the Earth. The more logical meaning of "the primeval waters" must belong to the mytheme of the Milky Way River and the Milky Way centre from where "thundering sounds create waves that rocks the surroundings".
@Myrrdin- I agree with your explanation, and in my opinion "the Primeval Mound" represents the Milky Way bulge, the mound where Ra, the fiery light, once emerged as a result of the interaction between the 4(8) primeval elements described in the Egyptian Ogdoad.

Regards Native
 
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