Sopdu
Sopdu was an Egyptian deity who formed a divine pair with Khensit at Saft el-Hinna. He was the consort of Khensit, the patron goddess of the twentieth nome of Lower Egypt.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Ancient Egyptian deity associated with Saft el-Hinna and paired with the goddess Khensit.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ptah, Bast, Sopdet, Ha, Iaaw, Sah, Horus-Sopdu, Osiris-Sah, Isis-Sopdet, Wepwawet, Sia, Weneg, Wadj-wer, Sokar, Tutu, Teka-her, Tenem, Wai, Wenenu, Wenty, Ra, Aten, Khnum, Sekhmet, Horus, Khepri, Hathor, Amun, Atum, Isis, Osiris, Bastet, Dedun, Ash, Yam, Artemis (Diana)
- consort of
- Khensit
Mentioned by
- Ra
- Aten
- Khnum
- Sekhmet
- Horus
- Khepri
- Hathor
- Amun
- Atum
- Isis
- Osiris
- Bastet
- Dedun
- Ash
- Yam
- Artemis (Diana)
and 2 more
Sources
Source passages
“Khensit was the wife of Sopdu and the daughter of Ra, and was depicted as an uraeus. Khensit and Sopdu were sometimes known as the divine pair of Saft el-Hinna.”
#9720 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Sopdu, god of war and the scorching heat of the summer Sun”
#15413 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Sopdu – A god of the sky and of Egypt's eastern border regions”
#21051 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“her husband Sah—the constellation Orion—and their son Sopdu parallels Isis's relations with Osiris and Horus.”
#23496 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Sopdet is the consort of Sah, the personified constellation of Orion near Sirius. Their child Venus was the hawk god Sopdu, "Lord of the East". As the "bringer of the New Year and the Nile flood", she was associated with Osiris from an early date”
#23694 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001