Heryshaf

Heri boss, also Herschefi, was an ancient Egyptian battle and fertility god as well as a local deity of Herakleopolis. Heri boss is not identical with the Greek name Harsaphes.

Heri boss is represented as a ram or as a human with a ram's head and carries between his twisted horns the Atef crown. Aries is a sacred animal. In the meantime, he was promoted to First State God. In the Middle Kingdom, he was regarded as a donor of food offerings. In the Ramesside Period of the New Kingdom was a name renaming Herschefi, who passed over so in a form of the kingdom of God Amun.

Herschef is closely associated with Re, Osiris, Ptah and Amun. So we joined him in Herakleopolis with Osiris and Amun- Temple of Hibis he was hailed as the image of Amun. Since the New Kingdom was even a merger with the god Horus. The Greeks identified him with Hercules.

In the Temple of Edfu is located on the east wall in the fourth register shown IV Ritual scene the divine coronation of Ptolemy. Responsible for the kingship God Heri chief presented as " lord of the Nemes ," the headscarf of the king. Heri boss wears, among other things, the term " King of the two countries and rulers of the bank, which began the kingship at the very beginning ." Ptolemy IV occurs in the form of Harendotes approached Heri boss and receives from him as the "king with hands- force in terms of its enemies," the Atef crown of Re - Harachte.

Heri boss contributes handover the nickname " The Re at the place of his youth " and symbolized in this moment, the two gods Re and Osiris as well as the central motif of ancient Egyptian mythology: The "Festival of Aufhackens of the Earth" from the Osiris myth regarding the killing of Seth by Horus.