Goddess Satet

Goddess Satet name

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.

Goddess Seshat

Goddess Seshat name

Goddess Seshat

Her  emblem  which  emanates  from a headband  is  obscure:  a  seven-pointed star or little potato above which is a bow-like symbol.  She  tires  a  long  panther-skin robe. As early as Dynasty II she helps the monarch Khasekhemwy in  pound boundary  celestial poles  into  the  ground  for the ceremonial  of  stretching  the  cord. This is a serious part of a temple foundation  ritual  involving  measure  out  its ground plan.

In the Old Kingdom Seshat  has  the responsibility of registering herds of cattle, sheep, goats and donkeys attached as swag by King Sahura (Dynasty V) from Libyan federations of tribes.  This  scene  at  Abusir  becomes a epitome, since we find Seshat showing names and tribute of foreign prisoners in the temple of Senwosret I twelfth Dynasty at el-Lisht.

In New Kingdom temples such as Karnak or Abydos Seshat records the royal jubilees. She holds a jagged palm offset (the sign for years) which terminates in a tadpole (the number 100000) sitting  on  the  symbol  for  eternity. It is by this  incalculably wide  number  that one must  breed  the  jubilee  festivals represented  by  the  ritual  pavilions  dependent on the tip of the branch, to give the number to be divine by the sovereign whose  name  she  commemorates  on  the allows of the persea tree  an infinity of kingship.

Goddess Nut

Goddess Nut name

Goddess Nut

Goddess Nut, in Egyptian faith, a goddess of the sky, vault of the spheres, often described as a woman bowed over the earth God Geb. Most cultures of regions where there is rain be the sky as masculine, the rain being the seed which fructifies Mother Earth. In Egypt, however, rain plays no office in fertility; all the useful water is on the earth (from the Nile River). Egyptian faith is unique in the genders of its deities of earth and sky. As the goddess of the sky, Nut withdrew the sun in the evening and gave birth to it again in the morning.

Nut was also described as a cow, for this was the form she taken order to express the sun God Ra on her back to the sky. On five special days previous the New Year, Nut gave birth successively to the divinities Osiris, Horus, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys. These deities, with the exclusion of Horus, were usually named to as the children of Nut.