Bes dancers with knives and Tambourine, accompanning the Hippopotamus goddess, Tauert. She was the patron of childbirth and maternity. Bes was initially a patron god of childbirth, dance, and music; later a warrior and strangler of antelope, bears, lions & serpents. (p.194, From a chair of Princess Satamun, daughter of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, BCE 1386-1349. Erik Hornung. Tal der Konige, Die Ruhestatte der Pharaonen. Weltbild Verlag.Augsburg. 1995)
