The provenance file on Onuris
The provenance file for Onuris. Nothing here is unsourced; that is what the file is for.
Provenance
1. The attestation. 𓏎𓈖𓁷𓂋𓏏𓈐𓅆, from the tradition's own record. On record: Thinite temple hymns (the Mehyt retrieval), Leiden Return-of-the-Eye cycle (Shu parallel), Abydos and This procession reliefs, Onuris entries in Lexikon der Ägyptologie.
2. The narrative record. The Fetching of the Lioness — In the nome of This the story ran: Mehyt, the lioness, fled into the eastern hills; Onuris pursued, threw the rope, and brought her down — and married her. The temple hymns celebrate the return procession: the retrieved goddess re-entering the town at her husband’s side, the desert’s ferocity domesticated into civic power. The Solar Eye Recovered — Read cosmically, Onuris’ retrieval is Shu’s embassy to the Eye — the same story the Leiden hymns tell of Tefnut’s return. Onuris is Shu’s local, warlike face: the one god whose job description is fetching the godhead’s missing power, whether by flattery or by spear.
3. The physical record. His temple at This is ruined but was still being described by nineteenth-century travellers; Abydos’ processional ways carry his images among the gods of the Thinite escort. Bronze figurines of the spear-bearing god, rope in hand, are standard Late Period votives.
4. The current holding. The temple at /onuris/, a temple of the restored name. aSCII-equivalent form
5. The documented resonances. Defense, Military & Security, Communication, Messaging & Logistics, Travel, Tourism & Place Branding — seats argued and weighted in the pattern atlas, read through the myths in this temple's Resonance File.
6. The primary sources. The Book of the Dead — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.
7. The continuing record. His myth survives as one of the most charming of the Eye-cycle variants — the only one where the divine embassy ends in marriage. The Thinite nome’s devotion to him outlasted its political weight by millennia; and his name, in the Greek form Anuris, wandered into the magical papyri as a word of power for recovering what is lost.
At a Glance
- Restored name: Onuris
- ASCII form: onuris
- Meaning: "He who brings back the distant one"
- Domain of influence: War, Hunting
- Pantheon: Egyptian
- Restoration: ASCII-equivalent form
- Original script: 𓏎𓈖𓁷𓂋𓏏𓈐𓅆
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 399 of 597
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