Ezz El-Din, Dina, Ezz El-Din, Riham. (2011). Goddess Iusaas (A study about her iconography and her religious role in Ancient Egypt. حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى", 14(14), 93-109. doi: 10.21608/cguaa.2011.298067
Dina Ezz El-Din; Riham Ezz El-Din. "Goddess Iusaas (A study about her iconography and her religious role in Ancient Egypt". حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى", 14, 14, 2011, 93-109. doi: 10.21608/cguaa.2011.298067
Ezz El-Din, Dina, Ezz El-Din, Riham. (2011). 'Goddess Iusaas (A study about her iconography and her religious role in Ancient Egypt', حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى", 14(14), pp. 93-109. doi: 10.21608/cguaa.2011.298067
Ezz El-Din, Dina, Ezz El-Din, Riham. Goddess Iusaas (A study about her iconography and her religious role in Ancient Egypt. حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى", 2011; 14(14): 93-109. doi: 10.21608/cguaa.2011.298067
Goddess Iusaas (A study about her iconography and her religious role in Ancient Egypt
1Lecturer at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Guiding Department, Alexandria University
2Lecturer at the High Institute of Tourism and Hotels, Guiding Department, EGOTH, Alexandria
المستخلص
Magnificent temples were built at Heliopolis (the 13th nome of Lower Egypt). They were dedicated to the cults of the main deities of the province, i.e. Atum and Re"). Other gods were also prominent in the area like Isis, Horus, Thoth, Hapy and Bastet . There were also some divine foundations such as the Mansion of the conical Benben-stone, as well as the (hwt-bnw), the House of the Phoenix bird personifying the sun-god One of the sanctuaries at Heliopolis belonged to Iusaas, who was associated with Atum, the creator god of Heliopolis and the father of the gods according to the Heliopolitan cosmogony . She usually figures as a woman, either sitting or standing, her head is adorned with the Hathoric emblem (the sun-disc between two horns), and in some examples she bears above her head a scarab . She was also associated with the acacia-tree.