Hapi (not Hapi son of Horus) is a deification of the annual flooding (inundation) of the Nile River in Ancient Egyptian folklore...
His name means Running One, probably referring to the current of the Nile.
He is typically depicted as a bearded man coloured blue or green with a large belly wearing a loincloth, having long hair and having pendulous, female-like breasts...
The annual flooding of the Nile occasionally was said to be the Arrival of Hapi...
It may be the case that originally, Hapi (or a variation on it), was an earlier name used for the Nile itself, since it was said (inaccurately) that the Nile began between Mu-Hapi and Kher-Hapi, at the southern edge of Egypt where the two tributaries entered the region (its sources are two lakes, one of which is Lake Victoria).
Nevertheless Hapi was not regarded as the god of the Nile itself but of the inundation event.
He was also considered a friend of Geb and Neper...
One of the oldest references to Hapi is in the Pyramid Texts of Unas. Hapi (here called Hep) is linked to the Nome of Kenset (including the First Cataract and the islands of Elephantine, Sahel, Philae, and others) and to (Wepwawet (the opener of the ways)...
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