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However, he is said to have been associated
with a fire that threatened to destroy
the other gods, leading many Nubiologists
to consider that there may have been a
great fire, at a shared complex of temples,
to different gods, that started in a temple
of Dedun, though there are no candidate
events known for this.
Although mentioned, as being a Nubian
god, in the pyramid texts, there is no
evidence that he was worshipped anywhere
north of Aswan. Nethertheless, in the
Middle Kingdom, during the Egyptian rule
over Kush, as god of incense, and so associated
with funerary rites, Dedun was said, by
the Egyptians, to be protector of deceased
(Nubian) rulers.
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