Goddess Bat

Goddess Bat name

Goddess Bat name

Goddess Bat was a predynastic cow goddess growing in Upper Egypt  (south)  whose image  comes out on the top show  of  the Narmer Palette, the  inscribed stone that  immortalizes  the  uniting of Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100 b.c. Bat has a human head and the ears and horns of a cow. She was rarely presented in Egyptian art, but when she was, her body was in the figure of the menat, the equalizer for a necklace that  was shaped  like a keyhole.  Egyptian necklaces were often large and full, so to keep them in place a equalizer would hang down the wearers back for balance. The menat also resembled the shape of the sistrum, the sacred rale, that was one of Bats ritual aims. One  of  the  names  of  Bats  cult  middle  was the House of the Sistrum. The earliest name of Bat is determined in the Pyramid Texts, in which pharaoh Unas is said to have the two faces of Bat. There are few later quotations, and as was so often the case in Egyptian mythology, the goddess Bat merged with Hathor, who became the super cow goddess.