Goddess Hesat

Goddess Hesat name

Goddess Hesat

Goddess Hesat was a cow goddess  who  nursed  the  children  of the gods and who gave birth to the king in the make of  the  golden  calf.  As  the  goddess  of  milk,  Hesat satisfied the thirst of world when she provided her divine milk, the beer of the souls. During the Late period (747-332 b.c.), Hesat was seen to be the mother of the Mnevis Bull and was rewarded  in the bull furore.

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.

Goddess Sopdet

Goddess Sopdet name

Goddess Sopdet

Goddess Sopdet  embodying the  star  Sirius  (Dog-star),  herald  of  the annual  Nile  deluge  by  its  bright appearing  in  the  dawn  sky  in  July (Heliacal rising). The Egyptian name of this goddess is Sopdetfrom which gains the Greek version Sothis, ordinarily used in Egyptology. She is pictured as a lady with a star on her head.

Picture of Sopdet from tomb of Seti I

Maybe as early as Dynasty I Sothis is named bringer  of  the  New
Year  and  the Nile  alluvion   the  agricultural  calender leaded off  with  the  rise  of  the  river  Nile. Sothis so became linked  like the  constellation  Orion  with  the  successfulness leaving from the fertile silt forgot by the losing waters. In  the  Pyramid Texts,  where  there  is hard  prove  of  an  early  Egyptian astral cult, the king joins with his sister Sothis who  gives  birth  to  the  Morning-star.  She  is  likewise  the  kings  guide  in  the heavenly Field of Rushes. In afterwards funerary texts  of  broken  courtiers  Sothis  has got mother and nurse.