| This is a great looking Hippo Figurine that is hand-fired, hand-painted and hand-carved with lotus flowers and made of either blue Faience or Strong Poly Resin. It measures approximately 9 1/2 inches long. You will enjoy putting this in any room of your home, office, or it makes a fantastic gift idea.
The hippopotamus (rarely found in Egypt nowadays) was a danger to boats on the river Nile, and to people working on or near the river banks. These animals were represented by the goddess Tauret, and offerings were made to her in the hope of placating her. She was also a goddess of fertility, represented as a pregnant hippopotamus.
In childbirth, Goddess Taueret suckled and protected the newborn. In the underworld, she carried the deceased toward a new destiny. In art, Taueret appeared as a hippopotamus standing on her hind legs with pendant breasts, sometimes with the back of a crocodile and the feet of a lion. In her role as an avenging deity, Taueret had the head of a lion and the body of a hippopotamus, brandishing a dagger, and sometimes carrying a crocodile on her shoulders. | 
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