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| Goddess Satet |
Goddess Satet was an Egyptian goddess acclaimed as the Mistress of the Elephantine. Primitively a goddess of the hunting, Satet gone patroness of the Nile Rivers inundations and was connected with the first cataract of the Nile, south of
Aswan.
Senusret III (1878-1841 B.C.E.) built a canal in her observe. Satet's cult dates to c. 2900 B.C.E. on
Elephantine Island. Her temple come out as a rock ecological niche there, accepting magnificence over the centuries. Also addressed (She Who Runs Like an Arrow), Satet was a associate of the
God Khnum and the mother of
Anukis. She was revered as the patronne of the southern frontier, the one who broken the life-giving waters of the Nile. Upper Egypt was sometimes addressed Ta-Satet, the Land of Satet.
Likewise associated with protective the Egyptians in war, Satet held arrows to slay the countries enemies. The pyramid texts list her as the purificator of the gone, and her name was discovered in the
Saqqara necropolis. She was described as a woman enduring the white crown of Upper Egypt and carrying a bow and arrows or an
ankh. In some pictures, the white crown on her head had antelope horns extending on either position. She was also shown heavy the vulture headdress, ordinarily held to queens who had given birth to successors. Satet's particular home was Sehel Island. She may to begin with have been a Nubian goddess.
