Which Canopic Jar Holds Which Organ?

Robert Thorne
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Canopic Jars Were Made to Contain the Organs That Were Removed from the Body in the Process of Mummification: the Lungs, Liver, Intestines, and Stomach. Each...

Which Canopic Jar Holds Which Organ?

Canopic jars were made to contain the organs that were removed from the body in the process of mummification: the lungs, liver, intestines, and stomach. Each organ was protected by one of the Four Sons of Horus: Hapy (lungs), Imsety (liver), Duamutef

Duamutef
Duamutef was, in ancient Egyptian religion, one of the four sons of Horus and a protection god of the canopic jars. Commonly he is said to be the son of the god Horus the Elder.
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(stomach), and Qebehsenuef
Qebehsenuef
Qebehsenuef ("He who refreshes his brothers") is an ancient Egyptian deity. He is one of the four sons of Horus in Egyptian mythology, the god of protection and of the West. In the preparation of mummies, his canopic jar was used for the intestines.
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(intestines).

What canopic jars hold the stomach?

The human-headed Imsety was the guardian of the liver; the baboon-headed Hapy looked after the lungs; the jackal-headed Duamutef was responsible for the stomach; and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef cared for the intestines.

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What canopic jars held the lungs?

They were: Hapi, the baboon-headed god representing the North, whose jar contained the lungs and was protected by the goddess Nephthys. Hapi is often used interchangeably with the Nile god Hapi, though they are actually different gods.

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