TYPE: Guardian Deity
ORIGIN: Egyptian
INFORMATION: A god who protects the eastern border, usually depicted as a falcon or a bedoin with a headdress of tall plumes. His cult was followed chiefly at Saft el-Henna in the Nile delta. Sopedu is linked in Pyramid Texts with the hawk god Horus. He also acted as a patron deity of the turquoise mines in the Sinai with inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadim. Also Sopdu.