Imset(y)

(Amset; WB Meshtha) “The Kindly One” One of the “Four Sons of Heru” depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Wesir in the Underworld, Imset is depicted as a mummified human wearing the “nemes” headcloth on funerary furniture and especially the “canopic” jars which held the organs of the deceased (Imset’s jar held the liver). Later Hermetic philosophers would equate Imset with the element of water because of his association with the funerary protectress Aset and the direction of west.