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The Temple Opet (Ipet, Apet) |
 | | Opet was venerated as a helper of women in Childbirth, and her rather odd temple was primarily built during the Greek Period by Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, and represents one of the last cult buildings erected at Karnak during this period. |
 | | Hence, it was closely associated with the temple of Khonsu, for this myth relates a cycle whereby Amun-Re dies in the form of Osiris and enters the body of Opet-Nut, to be reborn as Khonsu. |
 | | The Ptolemaic temple of Opet therefore reveals, at the moment when Egypt is at its peak of initiation, the final phase of the generation of the Theban Khonsu, the son of Amun in Mut, Ptah become the royal man, in complete equilibrium. |
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