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Goddess Imentet greeting
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Goddess Imentet, or Amentet, was a goddess of the dead, Amentet is the personification of the west, the home of the gone. Amentet, a sympathize with companion, helps the souls of the dead journey to their living direct in the Nether-world. From her home in the branches of a tree at the border of the desert, Amentet watched for the souls as they approached the charm to the Netherworld, or next world. Its positioning was believed to be in the western desert. Amentet extended bread and water to the beat souls, and if they accepted her hospitality, it meant they walked with the
gods and would peacefully introduce the next world. The ancient Egyptian word amentet means the infrared place, the land of the going down sun, where the broken gained for their trying journey through the 12 hours of the Duat in the dedicated boat of the sun
God Ra. Another translation of the myth states us that Amentet met the souls of the broken at the end of their journey to the Netherworld. Here the goddess assisted with the rebirth of their souls and admitted them with food and drink.
Amentet frequently seems in the company of other goddesses connected with fertility and resurrection. Sometimes she is a winged goddess, on with Isis and Nephthys when they assist with the magical resurrection of a mummy. When Amentet comes out with Hathor (Hathor-Amentet), she becomes a solar goddess of the west. She is often in the company of Re-Horakhty (Horus of the Two Horizons). Together they received the souls of the gone to their new dwelling place in the Netherworld and assisted with their resurrection. Amentet besides sometimes came out with Iabet, who, as goddess of the east, was Amentets twin.
