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Statues of these animals frequently had their legs broken off and were created with bands representing ropes. It’s not Amun, but a deity depicted as this animal shared their name with the Demotic for Thebes, where Osiris was reborn at a temple for them. Isis was conflated with a deity with the head of this animal who holds down Set in the night sky and challenged negative prophecies of the Seven Hathors. Several related gods rendered as this animal include Ipet, Reret, and Hedjet. Horus speared Set in the form of this animal through the mouth with a harpoon. The Hyksos’s ruler Apepi began a war after complaining of these animals in Thebes. Blue faience (“fye-YONSS”) funerary figures of these animals include the Met’s mascot William. For 10 points, the fertility god Taweret had the head and belly of what rotund animals of the Nile? ■END■
ANSWER: hippos [or hippopotamuses or hippopotami] (Apepi was supposedly disturbed by hippo roars.)
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