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.

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