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BES, or BESAS (Egyp. Bes or Besa) , the Egyptian god of re-creation, represented as a dwarf with large head, goggle eyes, protruding tongue, shaggy beard, a bushy tail seen between his bow legs hanging down behind (sometimes clearly as part of a skin girdle) and usually a large crown of feathers on his head. A Bes-like mask was found by Petrie amongst remains of the twelfth dynasty, but the earliest occurrence of the god is in the temple of the queen Hatshepsut at Deir
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mountebank , intended to inspire joy or drive away pain and sorrow, his hideousness being perhaps supposed actually to scare away the evil spirits. In his joyous aspect Bes plays the harp or flute
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appearance of large size in the sculptures of the temples is under Tahraka, at Jebel Barkal, Nubia
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See K. Sethe in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, s.v. ; A. Wiedemann, Religion of the Ancient Egyptians (London, 1897), p 159; E. A. W. Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, ii. p. 284 (London); W. Max Muller, Asien u. Europa ( Leipzig
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