Apt (Egyptian)

Aput (Åp-t)
Messenger-god
Name in hieroglyphs

Apt, in Egyptian, may refer to:

• Aput, Åp-t, or Åpu-t, the Messenger god in Egyptian mythology.^[1]
• Åpit, Apt, Apet, Aptu, Epet, Opet,^[2] or Åpåpit (Hathor),^[3] as a pregnant water-cow or hippopotamus, who is considered to be the most ancient form of the Great Mother.^[4]
• Apt, Egypt, an ancient city referred to by Gerald Massey as identified with Thebes.^[5]

See also

• Hathor, the lunar aspect of Apt
• Taweret, or Ta-urt, Hippopotamus goddess of vengeance from the Underworld
• Compare with Apu (god), a South American deity

References

1. Budge 1920, p. 42
2. Coulter 2013, pp. 61, 64, 169, 364
3. Budge 1920, p. 41
4. Massey 1907, pp. 558, 664, 715, 912
5. Massey 1907, p. 764

• Budge, E. A. Wallis (1920). An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary: With an Index of English Words, King List and Geographical List with Indexes, List of Hieroglyphic Characters, Coptic and Semitic Alphabets, Volume 1. Cosimo, Inc., 2013 reprint. ISBN 9781616404604.
• Coulter & Turner, C.R. (2013). Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. Routledge. ISBN 9781135963903.
• Massey, Gerald (1907). Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World: A Work of Reclamation and Restitution in Twelve Books, Volume 2. T. F. Unwin.
• See also: Liber 777, revised 2003, p. 7