TYPE: Fertility god of the Nile flood.
ORIGIN: Egyptian
INFORMATION: Inhabits its caverns adjacent to the Nile cataracts and oversees the annual innundation of the Nile valley. His court includes crocodile gods and frog goddesses. There are no known sanctuaries to Hapy. He is depicted in anthropomorphic form but androgynous, with prominent belly, pendulous breasts and crowned with water plants. He may hold a tray of produce. At Abydos he is depicted as a two-headed goose with human body. See also Khnum