The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
(1) This Egyptian word means ‘the ram’, and it is the name of the ram-god of Mendes in the sixteenth name of Lower Egypt.
As a philoprogenitive god he was the object of veneration from women who wanted offspring. Ba the ram-god gradually turns into Ba (see next entry), a manifestation of → Re. In the Late Egyptian period, the god assumes the form of a billy-goat.
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