Hapy’s Family Tree

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Family

• Horus the Elder(parent),Isis(parent),Duamutef(sibling),Imsety(sibling),Qebehsenuef(sibling)— Consort · Miraculous

  Isis and Horus the Elder are the parents of Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef, the four funerary deities who guard the canopic jars holding the viscera of the dead.

  ⚠ Pyramid Texts attribute the Four Sons to Horus alone. Later Coffin Texts name Isis as mother. The 'Horus' in question is generally understood as Horus the Elder (Haroeris), not Horus son of Isis.

• Horus(parent),Duamutef(sibling),Imsety(sibling),Qebehsenuef(sibling)

  The Four Sons of Horus — Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef — protected the canopic jars holding the deceased's organs, serving their father Horus in the funerary rites.

  ⚠ Coffin Texts Spell 157 names Isis as mother and identifies the father as Horus the Elder, diverging from the Pyramid Texts tradition of Horus alone.

Allied with

• Anubis,Duamutef,Imsety,Qebehsenuef

  Anubis oversees the embalming process while the Four Sons of Horus — Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef — guard the deceased's organs in their canopic jars.

Guards

• Osiris

  The Four Sons of Horus each guard one of Osiris's canopic jars in the afterlife: Imsety protects the liver, Hapy the lungs, Duamutef the stomach, and Qebehsenuef the intestines.

Guarded by

• Nephthys

  Nephthys guards the canopic jar of Hapy, the baboon-headed Son of Horus who protects the lungs of the deceased in Egyptian funerary rites.

Member of

• Four Sons of Horus

  Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef comprise the Four Sons of Horus, four funerary deities assigned to guard the canopic jars and preserve the organs of the dead for eternity.