The Four Sons of Horus, Canopic vessels.
The four deities “Umsty, Hapi, Dumutef, and Qibeh Snof” are the sons of Horus.
The ancient Egyptians considered them to be deities symbolizing the four corners of the world, where “Hapi is for the north, my evening is for the south, damotiv is for the east, and the ugliness for Sinof is for the west.” They were at one time on the four corners of the coffin, to the sky.
The ancient Egyptians believed in the idea of ​​the resurrection and the afterlife, so it was necessary to find a way to preserve the deceased’s body in the way it was during life, and this is the reason for arriving at the idea of ​​embalming “Canopic pots.”
One of the steps of embalming is the extraction of the soft internal organs that cannot be dried while inside, so they had to be extracted. Otherwise, they would have reached the stage of decomposition.
The embalmers extracted the brain, heart, lungs, and kidneys. They kept them in a box divided into four parts in the era of the Old Kingdom, then the shape of the cover developed in the era of the Middle and Modern States until the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Hapi is represented with the head of a monkey that protects the “lungs”.
I became an actor with a human head that protects the “liver”.
Domotiv is represented by the head of a jackal that protects the “stomach”.
The ugliness of a falcon-headed snuff that protects the “intestine”.
The viscera are placed close to the body.