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| Goddess Meretseger name |
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| Goddess Meretseger |
Goddess Meretseger was the goddess of the
Valley of the Kings, the famous necropolis right of Thebes. She was trusted to live in a pyramid-shaped mountain that broken a thousand feet above the Valley of the Kings. In ancient times, the mountain was discovered after her. She was besides named "Dehenet Imentet", which substance "Peak of the West".
During the
New Kingdom, Meretseger was the serious god over the Valley of the Kings. For the tomb detergent builders living in their village, now known as
Deir el-Medina, Meretseger was a dangerous, yet elegant, goddess who would punish sinners and liars with cecity and snakebites. She was represented as the lion of the peak, for she was fierce in her pursuit of sin. For the pious, she was a protective being who maintained the workers against snakebites. The workmen of Deir el-Medina devoted many stelae to her. Her cult rejected rapidly afterwards the 21st Dynasty, as the Valley of the Kings was abandoned. Meretseger was described as a coiled snake, or as a cobra-headed woman. Her name implies, "She Who Loves Quiet.
