Hapy- Egyptian GodDeity"Son of Horus"

The Baboon at the Jar

When embalmers drew the organs from the body, the lungs went into a jar sealed with a baboon-headed lid. Hapy's jar. It was positioned to the north in the canopic chest, and funerary priests recited spells invoking his protection over the breath. The lungs had carried life. Preserved in Hapy's keeping, they would carry it again.

He was depicted with the head of a hamadryas baboon atop a mummiform body. In earlier periods, all Four Sons of Horus bore human heads; the animal forms became standard during the New Kingdom. Hapy's baboon-headed canopic lids appear in tombs from the humblest to the most royal, including Tutankhamun's.

Nephthys and the North

Each Son of Horus guarded a cardinal direction and was paired with a protective goddess. Hapy held the north. His protector was Nephthys.

The Pyramid Texts say the four brothers were born from a lotus in the primordial waters. They served in Osiris's court, assisting in the judgment of the dead. Each brother guarded one organ. Together they kept the body whole for its journey through the Duat, their images on canopic jars, coffin panels, and tomb walls for over two thousand years.