A belated thanks for this extremely helpful comment! And yes please to your article!
I remember Hornung talking about the rarity of gods and goddesses being fused - I think I'll follow up his references. (I've just encountered the lioness-headed, ithyphallic, flail-brandishing, mummified diety seen at Hibis (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/30k472wh) and possibly elsewhere (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyofqtown/3883848055/). Blimey! Perhaps it's Mut, along the lines of the triple-headed version in the Book of the Dead. But I digress.) Mind you, there's always the possibility of a self-fulfilling prophecy - cross-gender deities being rare because they're known to be rare.
Sothis seems to have got around a bit! There's a Bastet-Sothis discussed in: Bergman, Jan. Isis-Seele und Osiris-Ei: zwei ägyptologische Studien zu Diodorus Siculus I 27, 4-5. Uppsala, Universitetet, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1970.
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Date: 2010-06-09 11:56 am (UTC)I remember Hornung talking about the rarity of gods and goddesses being fused - I think I'll follow up his references. (I've just encountered the lioness-headed, ithyphallic, flail-brandishing, mummified diety seen at Hibis (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/30k472wh) and possibly elsewhere (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyofqtown/3883848055/). Blimey! Perhaps it's Mut, along the lines of the triple-headed version in the Book of the Dead. But I digress.) Mind you, there's always the possibility of a self-fulfilling prophecy - cross-gender deities being rare because they're known to be rare.
Sothis seems to have got around a bit! There's a Bastet-Sothis discussed in: Bergman, Jan. Isis-Seele und Osiris-Ei: zwei ägyptologische Studien zu Diodorus Siculus I 27, 4-5. Uppsala, Universitetet, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1970.