Goddess Nehmetawy

Goddess Nehmetawy name

Goddess Nehmetawy was an ancient Egyptian goddess. She is not very widely famous. She was the wife of snake god Nehebu-kau, or in other places of worship, like in Hermopolis, the wife of Thoth. Her depicting are anthropomorph, with a sistrum-shaped headdress, much with a child in her lap.

Goddess Menhit

Goddess Menhit name

Goddess Menhit

A foreign war goddess, Menhit is the wife of God Anhur, both of whom may have grown in Nubia. Her name keys her as a goddess of force; it means she who massacres. Associated with Sekhmet, Menhit was seen as a feline goddess and often represented as a lioness. The Egyptian army believed that Menhit rode before of them to outsmart Egypts enemies with fiery arrows. She was favorite in Upper Egypt as the wife of God Khnum and the mother of God Heka.

Goddess Anat

Goddess Anat name

Goddess Anat

Goddess Anat or Anath was a goddess of the Canaanites, patronne of both love and war, Anat, always described as a pleasant young woman and named the Virgin, was the sister of the Semitic god Baal. Anat was respected as a goddess of  war  and  military campaigns  and  was  taken  by King Ramses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.) as one of his sponsors. In Egypt, Anat was depicted nude, standing on a lion and taking flowers. In the Ptolemaic Period (304-30 B.C.E.) Anat  was  mixed  with  Astarte, accepting  the  name "Astargatis". In other eras she was held Reshef and Baal as checks in rituals.

Goddess Ammit

Goddess Ammit name

Goddess Ammit

Goddess Ammit was a female demon  who  does a portion in the Egyptian Day of Judgment. She was feared as devourer of the dead, and she had the head of a crocodile, the torso of a predatory cat and the bottom of  a  hippopotamus. This  monster  waylaid near the scales of judge waiting for the verdict  to  be  given,  whereupon  she downed the sinner.

Goddess Amunet

Goddess Amunet name

Goddess Amunet was the wife of God Amun in the creation myth of the Ogdoad. Goddess Amunet and her husband described hiddenness.  Mythology  tells  us  that  Amunet  and Amun  resided  in  the  darkness  and  chaos  of  the  primordial water. Amunet is a symbol of protection and one of the creation goddesses. Her rites were corresponding the pharaohs jubilee fete, and during the later Greek mastery of Egypt (332-32 b.c.), she is shown nurturing  the  king  during  his  coronation  ceremonial. Amunet is sometimes shown as a goddess wearing a crown of Lower Egypt. Her place of importance was for the most part  taken over by Mut, Amuns wife during the New Kingdom (1550-1069 b.c.). However, there is a statue of Amunet in Karnak Temple.

Goddess Mut

Goddess Mut name

Goddess Mut

Goddess Mut was the goddess whose name agencies mother in  ancient Egyptian. Like Hathor and Isis, Mut was  the  symbolical  mother  of  the  pharaoh.  Mut  is connected  with  both  the  piranha  and  the  lioness. As a vulture goddess she is shown with the marauder headdress  with  the  double  crown  of  Upper  and Lower  Egypt.  Her  brightly  colored  red  or  blue clothe  is  a  linen  sheath  dress,  sometimes  with  a feather shape, and  she  carries  a  papyrus scepter. In  her  role  as  a  lioness,  Mut  is  linked  with Sekhmet,  who  acted  as  the  unforgiving  eye of Ra. The lioness-headed goddess Mut exchanged Amunet, the  first  wife  of  Amun,  and  gone  his  chief  wife when he raised to prominence in Thebes. She is the mother of God Khonsu, and together God Amun, Goddess Mut, and God Khonsu  make up  the  Theban  triad.  Mut appears conspicuously  in  all  the  leading  temples  next  to  her husband, and her devoted precinct was married to the Amun sanctuary by a precious route.

Goddess Nebethetepet

Goddess Nebethetepet name

Goddess Nebethetepet is an ancient Egyptian goddess. Her name means "Lady of the Offerings" or "Fulfilled Lady". She was worshipped in Heliopolis as a female opposite number of Atum, similarly to Iusaaset; was also associated with Hathor. She personified Atum's hand, the female principle of creation; she had no other significance.

Goddess Wosret

Goddess Wosret was the Goddess of Thebes  whose name  means  the  powerful.  Perchance she was  the  earliest  consort of God Amun at Karnak, leading Mut. Certainly Middle Kingdom  pharaohs  of Theban  origins take her name as an factor in their own Sen-Wosret or man belonging to Wosret.

Goddess Tefnut

Goddess Tefnut name

Goddess Tefnut

Goddess Tefnut was an ancient Egyptian goddess, observed as the twin sister and consort of God Shu. Earlier she was the accord of a god named Tefen, but his cult disappeared. As Tefens wife, she was called Tefent. Tefnut embodied moisture, rain, and fluency and also had a set in solar fads. She was affiliated with Ptah at Heliopolis. Tefnut served as a substance by which Ptah brought life into the world.

In historical stops, Tefnut was associated with the goddess Maat and was the place between heaven and earth. With Maat, Tefnut was sometimes viewed as a spiritual draw rather than a divine being.  She was represented as a lioness or as a woman with a lions  head. Tefnut supported  the sky with Shu and  received  the newly risen sun every morning.

Goddess Iat

Goddess Iat name

Goddess Iat was an Egyptian minor goddess of milk and, by connection, of raising and childbirth. The name of the goddess resembles iatet which is Egyptian word for "milk". The goddess is rarely mentioned in ancient Egyptian texts, and that's why very microscopic is known about her. Some mentioning of Iat can be discovered in the Pyramid Texts like where a king is reading "my foster-mother is Iat, and it is she who sustains me, it is indeed she who bore me"

Goddess Iusaaset

Goddess Iusaaset

Goddess Iusaaset was a goddess of Egypt, sometimes worshipped as Nebhethotep, she was a fit of the god Tem, depicted in some periods as the sole raise of the gods Shu and Tefnut. Described as a woman holding a scepter and an ankh, she is established wearing a vulture headdress and a horned disk. Iusas was a female aspect of Tem.

Goddess Hedetet

Goddess Hedetet name

Goddess Hedetet is a scorpion goddess of the ancient Egyptian faith. She resembles Serket in some ways, but was in later periods agreed into Isis. She was described with the head of a scorpion, nursing a baby. She is observed in the Book of the Dead.

Goddess Werethekau

Goddess Werethekau name

Goddess Werethekau from Luxor temple

Goddess Werethekau was a cobra or lioness Goddess, shielder of the pharaoh. Her  name  agency  Great  of  Magic which as an name ofttimes follows the names of leading goddesses such as goddess Hathor, goddess Isis, goddess Mut, goddess Pakhet or Sakhmet.  In  the Pyramid Texts, the style Great of Magic is besides given to the Crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt.

As an clear deity, Werethekau occurs  in  reliefs  and  inscriptions of the New Kingdom. On the Eighth Pylon of the Temple of Amun at Karnak, Werethekau  with  the head of a lioness accompanies  the king Thutmose III (18th Dynasty) in  the advance  of the spiritual boat  conducted  the  priests shoulder joints. The most enjoyable histrionics  of the  lioness  goddess  are  on  the interior northern  wall  of  the  Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak where she gives the pharaoh Sety I (19th Dynasty) with  the  symbol  of  the  jubilee  fete.  On  the small  Golden  shrine  described  in  the tomb of King Tutankhamun (18th Dynasty) the name of the king, and that of his queen Ankhesenamun, is often united to Werethekau, sometimes named Mistress of the Palace. In the shrine itself was an amulet  showing  Werethekau  as  a cobra-goddess,  with  a human  head  and arms, breastfeeding Tutankhamun. Her familiarity to royalty is particularly tried on the inscription on the pair statue of the king Horemheb (18th Dynasty) and his queen Mutnodjmet, nowadays in Turin Museum.  The  inscription  describes how during Horemhebs coronation ceremonial  in  the Temple of Karnak, Werethekau  addresses  the  new  pharaoh  and constitutes  herself  as  the  Uraeus  on  his brow.  In  the  Graeco-Roman Era Werethekau takes part in the mourning rituals  depicted  on  the  walls  of the Osiris chapel on the roof of the Temple of Philae.