Goddess Qetesh

Goddess Qetesh name

Goddess Qetesh

Goddess Qetesh was the Middle Eastern goddess of  dedicated  exaltation  and  sexual  pleasure, taken  in  the  New Kingdom  by  the Egyptians into a triad with the gods Min and Reshep. Her name, plausibly meaning the holy, passes no clew to her lines but she  appears  to  be  a  manifestation  of  the sensuousness  inherent  in  the  goddesses Astarte and Anat.

Qetesh rides naked on the back of a lion and holds out symbols of amativeness and fertility to her companions  lotuses for God Min and snakes or papyrus constitutes for Reshep. In the Levant the cult of Qetesh, like that of Astarte, taken her acolytes modeling  the  dedicated  marriage of the goddess  with  Reshep. This sexuality exposed  by  Qetesh  naturally  led  to  an designation  between  her  and  Goddess Hathor the Egyptian goddess of Love.