(Tuamutef) - “Praising his mother” One of the “Four Sons of Heru” depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Wesir in the Underworld, Duamutef is depicted as a jackal-headed mummified human on funerary furniture and especially the “canopic” jars which held the organs of the deceased (Duamutef’s jar held the stomach). Later Hermetic philosophers would equate Duamutef with the element of earth because of his association with the funerary protectress Nit and the direction of north.
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