Cows in Ancient Egypt

Picture show the breeding
of cattle (cows) in
Ancient Egypt

Meat of cows (cattle) and goose were more loosely eaten than any other form of animal food. Cows were the great power source apart from human push, they were milked, slaughtered, sacrificed and eaten. On the other hand they were a artificial lake for the tuberculosis bacillus the human form of which infected a large circumstances of Egyptians and the bovine cestode.

Livestock Breeding in Ancient
Egypt (Inside the tomb of Kagemni, Saqqara)

Only a number of gods were precious in the form of bulls or cows. To Begin With a fertility god, Apis, the nearly essential male deity among them, admitted the role of Ptah's herald and was famous with his Ka as the Splendid Soul of Ptah. After his death he merged with Osiris, and was named Serapis (Osiris-Apis), a death god. Therefore the flesh of the cow was, though, never taken on account of its purportedly sacred character

Pigs in Ancient Egypt

Breeding pigs in Ancient
Egypt (Inside the tomb of Kagemni, Saqqara)

Pigs were loosely looked upon as black, and thus unfit for foods. The chroniclers present them as used for food at only one festival. Those represented on the memorials were ugly in the big, with long legs and necks, rough hair, and a crest of bristles run down the back.

Goats in Ancient Egypt

Goats in Ancient Egypt

Goats were known animals in ancient Egyptians world. It was very structural variety of home animals, and their meat was the almost took by all classes of Egyptians and their skin made great water containers and floating twists. Chickens did eventually gone broken in the New Kingdom, but not popularly until later on Egyptians developed artificial incubation in the Late Period.

Sheep in Ancient Egypt

Breeding sheep in Ancient
Egypt (Inside a tomb back
to 2000 BC)

Sheep, though, do not come along to have been mostly eaten; in some breaks it was, indeed, strong to devour them.

Two sorts of gentle sheep were raised in ancient Egypt. The older stock, (ovis longipes), had horns jutting out, while the newer fat chased sheep, (ovis platyra), which was presented during the Middle Kingdom, had horns curled close to the head on either lateral.

Sheep were not of the economic importance to Egyptians that they were to the desert dwellers, who hinged upon sheep for milk, meat and wool. The Egyptians favorite the less hot and electric linen and later the light cotton to fleece.

Oxen in Ancient Egypt

The domestic oxen were usually of the hump-backed change. But not only were the frequent domestic animals domestic and risen in ancient Egypt, but also animals such as oryxes and gazelles. The following oxen picture from the  tomb of Meketre (Twelfth dynasty, the Middle Kingdom)

Cattle and Oxen in Ancient Egypt (Inside the tomb of Meketre, 12th dynasty)

Goddesses of Ancient Egyptians

Religious customs from the ancient Near East can be a deep informant of formative stirring for the contemporary dancer, poet, painter, or Pagan practitioner. The dimensions, personalities, and levels of deities are often a mirror for our private human foibles, and many taking stories have come down to us direct the centuries. This selective information about the goddesses of ancient Egypt may cheer your personal creative versions.  

List of Egyptians Goddesses

·  Goddess Mehit

·  Goddess Taweret

·  Goddess Hatmehit

·  Goddess Ta-Bitjet

·  Goddess Baalat

·  Goddess Unut

·  Goddess Mehurt

·  Goddess Renenutet

·  Goddess Heket

·  Goddess Astarte

·  Goddess Sekhmet

·  Bubastis, The Loacation of Bastet's Cult

·  Goddess Bastet Festivals

·  Bastet and Connection to Other Deities

·  Goddess Bastet

·  Goddess Renpet

·  Goddess Pakhet

·  Worship of Nephthys in the New Kingdom

·  Nephthys and Saving Sister of Osiris

·  Goddess Nephthys

·  Goddess Nehmetawy

·  Goddess Menhit

·  Goddess Anat

·  Goddess Ammit

·  Goddess Amunet

·  Goddess Mut

·  Goddess Nebethetepet

·  Goddess Wosret

·  Goddess Tefnut

·  Goddess Iat

·  Goddess Iusaaset

·  Goddess Hedetet

·  Goddess Werethekau

·  Wadjet's Relations with Other Deities

·  Wadjet as a Protector of Country, Pharaohs, and Ot...

·  Goddess Wadjet

·  Goddess Mafdet

·  Maat the Goddess of Truth and Justice

·  Maat as a Goddess

·  Goddess Maat and Scribes

·  Goddess Maat and the Law

·  Goddess Maat

·  Isis and the Egyptian Magic

·  Isis and Osiris, (Myth)

·  Isis and Hathor

·  Isis's Tenacity and Guile

·  Isis and the Seven Scorpions

·  Isis as a Mother of Horus

·  Isis and Nephthys

·  Goddess Isis

·  Isis as Sisterwife of Osiris

·  Goddess Imentet

·  Goddess Hesat

·  Goddess Shesmetet

·  Goddess Raet-Tawy

·  Goddess Qetesh

·  Goddess Sopdet

·  Goddess Anuket

·  Goddess Satet

·  Goddess Seshat

·  Goddess Nut

·  Goddess Meretseger

·  Goddess Neith

·  Goddess Hathor

·  Goddess Meskhenet

·  Goddess Nekhbet

·  Goddess Serket

·  Goddess Bat

·  Goddess Shai 

Goddess Mehit

Goddess Mehit name

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.

Goddess Taweret

Goddess Taweret name

Goddess Taweret

Goddess Taweret was a house deity,  Taweret  the  pregnant  hippopotamus goddess  was  the  patron  of  pregnant  women.  She helped  in  childbirth  and  observed  over  young children.  Because  of  her  cool  nature  and  kindly disposition,  she  was  a  favorite  family  goddess. Amulets in the shape of the goddess were raised by  the  hundreds  and  broken  by  pregnant  women. Small  figurines  of  Taweret  were  often  kept  in home  shrines.  It  was  thought  that  her  fierce show the head of a river horse, the arms and legs of a feline, the tail of a crocodile, and long flat breasts would ward off any evil spirits and  keep  the  women  and  children  of  the  house safe.  Stone  vases  were  engraved  in  her  image  with  a perforation at one of her nipples so that milk could be streamed from the vase while magical spells were recited  to  cure  children  stung  by  scorpions.  Her name way the great one and her attribute is the SA sign, a restrictive sign in the shape of a papyrus life preserver used by boaters, held in her left paw. The Greek writer Plutarch says she was the concubine of the evil god Set but that she eventually deserted him for Horus the falcon god.

Goddess Hatmehit

Goddess Hatmehit name

Goddess Hatmehit (left) with other deities

Goddess Hatmehit was a Goddess of the city of Mendes in the Delta, stood for as a Nile cavil or as a woman with a fish emblem on her head, Hat-mehit was hidden by the ram-god Baeb Djet at Mendes. She  was eventually considered as his associate. Her name Hatmehit or (Hat-mehit) meaning (first of  the fishes).

Goddess Ta-Bitjet

Goddess Ta-Bitjet name

Goddess Ta-Bitjet was a Scorpion-goddess called wife of God Horus in a number of magico-medical turns against vicious bites.The power of the spell stems from the magic of the blood that flowed when Horus took her maidenhood.

Goddess Baalat

Goddess Baalat name

Goddess Baalat was a Canaanite goddess connected plausibly via her obligation for products valued by the Egyptians with Hathor. Her name means schoolmarm and she is clearly the light counterpart to God Baal. In her role as Baalat Gebal schoolma'am of Byblos she  protects the  cedar-wood trade between Lebanon and Egypt which goes back to the reign of King Sneferu (4th Dynasty). Her significance parallels that of Hathor of Dendera who is described as dwelling at Byblos. In the Sinai peninsula the peacock blue mines at Serabit  el-Khadim  were  protected  by Hathor. In the temple of Goddess Hathor, there is a small sandstone sphinx written by the dedicator both with the name of the Egyptian deity, in hieroglyphics, and with the name of Baalat, in an early alphabetised script.

Goddess Unut

Goddess Unut name

Goddess Unut

Goddess Unut was a rabbit or hare goddess of Egypt, serving as a patroness of Thebes. She was the associate of Unu, the hare god, and she was described in the totems of the Theban nome and as part of the Was Scepter.