Hapy

Hapy is the god of the Nile flood, the annual inundation that buried the fields in fertile black silt and made Egypt live. He is shown as a heavy, blue or green man with pendulous breasts and a belly of plenty, crowned with papyrus or lotus, bearing trays of fish, fowl, and grain. His androgynous form makes him both father and mother to the land. Hymns begged him to rise high enough for harvest but not so high as to drown it, for famine and feast alike came from his hand.