Hiéracocéphale
Hiéracocéphale , indicates in Egyptology of the divinities with head of falcon (of the old Greek: Ἱεράκων, the falcon; kέφαλος, the head)
In ancient Egypt, the falcon was a crowned animal which was the " média" privileged certain gods and those ended up being identified with these and thus merged with the eyes of the former Egyptians.
One counts among the principal divinities hiéracocéphales of the Egyptian Pantheon:
- Re - Horakhty
- Horus
- Qebehsenouf (one of four wire of Horus)
- Haroëris
- Sokaris
- Montou
- Khonsou
- Hemen
- Houroun
The expression employment by extension to any sculpture or repersentation having this singularity. One will be able to thus quote concerning other cultures the representations of Griffon S in the mythology of the ancient Greece or the monumental sculptures of the Mausolée of Antiochos {{Ier}} of Commagène to Nemrud Dagh in Turkey.
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