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Mehen In Ancient Egypt the name Mehen meaning 'coiled one' referred to a mythological snake-god and to a game.〔(Discussion of the game by ) University College London〕 ==Snake god== The earliest references to Mehen occur in the Coffin Texts.〔The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by R. Wilkinson ISBN 0-500-05120-8〕 Mehen is a protective deity who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night, for instance in the Amduat.〔The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife by Erik Hornung ISBN 0-8014-8515-0〕 In the German-Egyptian dictionary by R. Hannig〔Hannig, R. 1995. Die Sprache der Pharaonen: Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch〕 it is said that the Mehen (mḥn) or the Mehenet (mḥnt) snake is equivalent to the Ouroboros.
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