Editing Hapi (Nile god) (section)

==Iconography==
[[File:Hapi with offerings.svg|thumb|Hapi, bearing offerings]]
Although [[male]] and wearing the false [[beard]], Hapi was pictured with pendulous breasts and a large stomach, as representations of the [[fertility]] of the Nile. He was usually given blue<ref name="Wilkinson 107"/> or green skin, representing water. Other attributes varied, depending upon the region of Egypt in which the depictions exist. In Lower Egypt, he was adorned with [[papyrus]] plants and attended by [[frog]]s, present in the region, and symbols of it. Whereas in Upper Egypt, it was the [[Blue Egyptian lotus|lotus]] and [[Nile crocodile|crocodile]]s which were more present in the Nile, thus these were the symbols of the region, and those associated with Hapi there. Hapi often was pictured carrying offerings of food or pouring water from an [[amphora]], but also, very rarely, was depicted as a [[hippopotamus]]. During the [[Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt|Nineteenth Dynasty]] Hapi is often depicted as a pair of figures, each holding and tying together the long stem of two plants representing Upper and Lower Egypt, symbolically binding the two halves of the country around a [[hieroglyph]] meaning "union".<ref name="Wilkinson 107"/> This symbolic representation was often carved at the base of seated statues of the pharaoh.<ref name="Wilkinson 107"/>
Egyptian historian Al Maqrizi (1364–1442) related in his "El Khutat El Maqrizia (The Maqrizian Plans) that living virgins were sacrificed annually as "brides of the Nile" ("Arous El Nil") and this has been historically accepted as late as the 1970s,<ref>Desmond Stewart, Wonders of Man The Pyramids and the Sphinx pg.99</ref> but this claim is disputed by some Egyptologists such as Bassam El Shammaa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.masress.com/en/dailynews/107916|title=The Nile Bride sacrifice is a big myth, says Egyptologist|website=Masress}}</ref>