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ONOURIS , See also:Egyptian En-huri, " See also:sky-See also:bearer," the See also:god of Thinis . Later identified with Shu (Show), who holds See also:heaven and See also:earth apart . PTAH, the See also:Hephaestus of the Greeks, a demiurgic and creative god, See also:special See also:patron of See also:hand-workers and artisans . Worshipped in See also:Memphis, he perhaps owed his importance more to the See also:political prominence of that See also:town than to anything else . He was See also:early identified with an See also:ancient but obscure god Tenen, and further with the sepulchral deity Sokaris . He is represented either as a closely enshrouded figure whose protruding hands grasp a composite See also:sceptre, the whole See also:standing on a See also:pedestal within a See also:shrine; or else as a misshapen See also:dwarf . |
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