Apedemak: Did The Three-Headed Lion War God Of Kush Originate From Ancient India?
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Considered the war god of Kush, Apedemak was worshiped in ancient Meroe, a once magnificent and wealthy capital in the kingdom of Kush in Nubia, present-day Sudan.
Today, there are few ancient remains of the stunning buildings built by the Meroitics, but archaeologists have been able to confirm the tall, slender pyramids, paintings, writing script, and other artistic and cultural forms made by the Nubian people were in the Egyptian style.
Three-headed Apedemak with four arms depicted at Naqa Lion Temple. Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Three Kushite kingdoms dominated Nubia for more than 3,000 years, with capitals in Kerma, Napata, and Meroe. The ancient kingdom of Kush was very powerful and rival to Egypt, but there were many similarities between these two ancient civilizations.
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