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| Goddess Qetesh name |
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| 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.
