Wepwawet, whose name means “opener of the way” and is believed a standard that led armies to battle and “opens the way” to king of the champion of royalty, is originally a war god from Ancient Upper Egypt...
Wepwawet is also originally known as the funerary deity who portrayed as a jackal headed man with soldier dress and carrying weapons in his hand.
Sometimes, he was also depicted as a wolf or a jackal.
Wepwawet can appear sometimes as a wolf standing at the prow of a solar-boat.
Some interpret that Wepwawet was seen as a scout, going out to clear routes for the army to proceed forward.
One inscription from the Sinai states that Wepwawet “opens the way” to king Sekhemkhet’s victory…
In the later Egyptian funerary context, Wepwawet assists at the Opening of the mouth ceremony and guides the deceased into the netherworld.
Most significantly, in later pyramid texts, Upuaut is called "Ra" who has gone up from the horizon, perhaps as the "opener" of the sky.
Note that Ra or Re is the ancient Egyptian sun god. By the Fifth Dynasty he had become major in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the midday sun.
The meaning of the name is uncertain, but it is thought that if not a word for 'sun' it may be a variant of or linked to words meaning 'creative power'.http://bit.ly/163fZ5Z
An other text was briefly circulated claiming that Wepwawet was born at the sanctuary of Wadjet, a location in the heart of Lower Egypt.
Consequently, Wepwawet, who had hitherto been the standard of Upper Egypt alone, formed an integral part of royal rituals, symbolising the unification of Egypt.
Eventually, his identity merged into that of Anubis, and so when Anubis, the god of the dead in the Ogdoad belief system, was displaced by Osiris (Ausare), the god of the dead in the Ennead, Wepwawet, more accurately Anubis, became considered Isis' (Aset's) adopted son (his real mother being said to be Nephthys (Nebt-het), the father being Osiris)...
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