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| Goddess Wadjet name |
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| Goddess Wadjet |
Goddess Wadje was a Cobra-goddess of Buto (Tell el-Farain) in the Nile Delta, restorer of royal authority over Northern Egypt. Wadjet is described as a cobra rearing up to strike with lethal force any enemy of the king. She can also come out as a lioness in her part as Eye of
Ra (compare Sekhmet and Tefnut). Her name (also base in Egyptological literature as Edjo or Uto) means green one, a quotation both to a serpents colour and to the Delta's papyrus deluges which, according to one of the Pyramid Texts, she created.
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| Goddess Wadjet (the fire cobra) |
She is the protective goddess of Lower Egypt and is symbolised as such by a title in the royal protocol . The major Delta shrine, the Per-nu, is under her protection. Wadjet is in harmoniousness with her southeastern counterpart
Nekhbet in temples or tombs she can oftentimes be seen with the good body or just the flies of the vulture-goddess of Upper Egypt.
In the fable of the breeding of the
young Horus in Khemmis in the Delta it is Wadjet who is his entertain leading to a later designation with
Isis. Along with different other leonine deities she is given the comparatively unnoticeable role of mother to the
God Nefertum.
Other Roles of Goddess Wadjet:
