Goddess Shesmetet

Goddess Shesmetet was a leonine goddess, probably a  expression of  Sakhmet. Shesmetet gives  birth  to  the  king  matching  to  the Pyramid Texts and with the democratisation of  Egyptian  feeling  becomes  the mother  of  the  deceased  in  funerary papyri. In a spell to be recited on the last day of the year the name of Shesmetet is invoked  as  a  magical  force against monsters  of  slaughter. There  is  a  clue  to the exotic origins of this goddess in her epithet Lady  of  Punt,  i.e.  the  cense region near the coast of modern Eritrea.

Goddess Raet-Tawy


Goddess Raet-Tawy name
Goddess Raet-Tawy name
Goddess Raet-Tawy or (Rattawy) is an ancient Egyptian solar goddess, the female expression of God Ra. First seems during the reign of the Fifth Dynasty, Raet is belike to have been a company of Ra from the come out, and did not have a break origin. Although she was visited the lady of the sky and the gods, she never given the grandness of Hathor, who was also considered the wife of God Ra (or, in other myths, his daughter).

Raet was of severe importance to established Ancient Egypt and predynastic, "for it was usual in the case of gods who were the production of the strictly dynastic period to pay [small] attention to the goddesses who were involved as their wives"

Raet was also considered a wife of Montu, and she formed a triple with him and Harpocrates in Karnak and Medamud. Her fete day was in the first month of the harvesting season. The substances of her cult were at Medamud, El-Tod, and Thebes. A average industrial from the Roman period with hymns to Raet has gone in fragments

Goddess Qetesh


Goddess Qetesh name
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.

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