Foreleg of Ox - List of Uses

List of Uses

A list of uses for the foreleg hieroglyph, with no order of importance actually implied:

  1. Foreleg of ox, a "choice cut of meat"
  2. Mortuary offering for ritual; the first item shown in the formulaic listing of items given to the deceased on the funerary stele (thigh, then fowl, bread, wine, beer, and linen, etc.)
  3. In ritual ceremony, the right foreleg (of the ox) is always "unfettered" while incapacitating the ox, and is the sacrificed/ceremonial foreleg
  4. Ideogram, or determinative–
    "thigh", "arm"
    'khepesh', (h)pš)
  5. The "strong (human) arm", the strength implied by royal or divine gift
  6. for "strength"-(khepesh) in dedication ceremonies, (Opening of the Mouth); also before mummy internment
  7. the foreleg-thigh shape is equivalent to the power implied from the similar-shaped scimitar presented by a god
  8. "The Foreleg" as the Big Dipper; equivalent in the Epic of Gilgamesh of the Mesopotamian civilizations, to the Bull of Heaven


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