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Goddess Mut name |
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Goddess Mut |
Goddess Mut was the goddess whose name agencies mother in ancient Egyptian. Like
Hathor and
Isis, Mut was the symbolical mother of the pharaoh. Mut is connected with both the piranha and the lioness. As a vulture goddess she is shown with the marauder headdress with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Her brightly colored red or blue clothe is a linen sheath dress, sometimes with a feather shape, and she carries a
papyrus scepter. In her role as a lioness, Mut is linked with Sekhmet, who acted as the unforgiving eye of
Ra. The lioness-headed goddess Mut exchanged Amunet, the first wife of
Amun, and gone his chief wife when he raised to prominence in Thebes. She is the mother of
God Khonsu, and together God Amun, Goddess Mut, and God Khonsu make up the Theban triad. Mut appears conspicuously in all the leading temples next to her husband, and her devoted precinct was married to the Amun sanctuary by a precious route.