Min (god)

For the Hebrew term for an infidel, see minuth

Min was an ancient fertility god and the patron of traveling caravans in Egyptian mythology. As a god of male sexual potency, he was honored during the coronation rites of the New Kingdom Pharaohs. Festivals in his honor included offerings of wheat and lettuce (an aphrodisiac). He was a son or lover of Isis.

In Egyptian art, Min was depicted as wearing a crown with feathers and holding his penis, erect, in his left hand while holding a flail in his right.

• an aspect of the god Ammon
• one of the most ancient and enduring of Egyptian gods, worshipped in all Ancient Egyptian periods
• associated with thunder
• Sometimes (but rarely) shown with the head of a lion
• god of fertility and vegetation
• associated by the Greeks with Pan, but their cults were distinct
• Worshipped at Akhmim a city known to the Greeks as Panopolis. Also associated strongly with the cities of Gebtu and Kmentmin , in both of which he was worshipped in the form of a white bull.
• at the beginning of the harvest season, they took his image out of the temple and brought it to the fields in the "festival of the departure of Min," During which they blessed the harvest and played gymnastic games in his honor.

External links

• Site on Min, with some pictures