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| Goddess Mehit |
Goddess Mehit or (Hatmehit) in the ancient Egyptian faith was a fish-goddess in the area around the delta city of Per-banebdjedet, Mendes In ancient Egyptian art Mehit was represented either as a fish, or a woman with a fish emblem or crown on her head. She was a goddess of life and security. Her name transforms as Foremost of Fish or Chief of Fish. She may have some connector to
Hathor, one of the best deities of Egypt who also went by the name Mehit, meaning great flood. This may maybe be due to being seen as a end of the primal waters of creation from which all things arose. Other
goddesses connected with the primal waters of universe are
Mut and
Naunet.
When the rage of
Osiris arose, the people of Mendes reacted by identifying Osiris as having attained his agency by being the husband of Mehit. In certain, it was the Ba of Osiris, known as
Banebjed (literally meaning Ba of the lord of the djed, consulting to Osiris), which was said to have married Mehit. When
God Horus got taken the son of Osiris, a form known as Harpocrates (Har-pa-khered in Egyptian), Mehit was accordingly said to be his mother. As wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus, she eventually became identified as a form of
Isis.
