Rem (mythology)

{{Short description|Ancient Egyptian deity}}

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{{Ancient Egyptian religion}}

Rem ("to weep"), also Rem-Rem, Remi, or Remi the Weeper, who lives in Rem-Rem, the realm of weeping,{{cite book |title=Ancient Egypt - The Light of the World: A Work of Reclamation and Restitution in Twelve Books |author=Gerald Massey |author-link=Gerald Massey |publisher=NuVision Publications |year=2008 |orig-year=1907 |isbn=978-1595476067 |page=319}} was a fish god in Egypt who fertilized the land with his tears,{{cite book |title=Myths of Babylonia and Assyria |author=Donald A. MacKenzie |author-link=Donald Alexander Mackenzie |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |year=2004 |orig-year=1915 |isbn=978-1417976430 |page=29}} producing both vegetation and the reptiles.{{cite book |title=The Gods of the Egyptians: Or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology |volume=1 |author=E. A. Wallis Budge |author-link=E. A. Wallis Budge |publisher=Methuen & Company |year=1904 |page=319}} He is assumed to be the personification of Ra's tears.{{cite book |title=The Gods of the Egyptians: Or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology |volume=1 |author=E. A. Wallis Budge |author-link=E. A. Wallis Budge |publisher=Methuen & Company |year=1904 |page=303}}