Goddess Renenutet

Goddess Renenutet name

Goddess Renenutet receives
papyrus plants from
Thutmose IV (Stella of
Thutmose IV)

Goddess Renenutet was an Egyptian goddess of good luck, she was taken an incarnation of Isis as the patroness of harvests. She was also worshiped as the heavenly cobra that entertained the pharaohs. A temple dedicated to Renenet was erected in the Faiyum during  the Middle Kingdom (2040-1640 B.C.E.). She was also affiliated with the cults of Hathor and other goddesses relating harvests, fate, happiness, and childbearing.

Goddess Heket

Goddess Heket name

Goddess Heket

Goddess Heket was one of the particular radical of eight deities that form the Ogdoad, the basis of the Hermopolis creation myth. Heket was the female twin of Hek, a god  of  space.  She  later  formulated into a frog goddess who assisted at childbirth. Heket is first referred in the Pyramid Texts (2345 b.c.), a mathematical group of magical inscriptions, in which she accompanies the spirit of the went king to his lay in the sky. Her most important  connexion  was  with  childbirth, a distinction she shared with Bes and Tauret, who also saved mothers and children. Heket was especially addressed upon during the last levels of labor. A Middle Kingdom papyrus (2055-1650 b.c.) tells how Heket attended the wife of the high priest of Re when she was about to give birth to the future king.

Amulets and scarabs in the mold of a frog were often  worn  by  pregnant  women  in  the  hope  that Heket  would  serve  them  during  labor.  Magical inscriptions  on  ivory  wands,  modern  in  the  Middle Kingdom,  refer  to  Heket  as  the  guardian  of  the home.  A  temple  sacred  to  Heket  was  found  at Qus in Upper Egypt, and there is a source to her furore in the tomb of Petosiris (fourth century b.c.) at Tuna el Gabel in Middle Egypt. Petosiris was a full priest of the god Thoth, and he showed on his tomb that Heket led him to a shrine full by the yearly deluge of the Nile and asked him to resort her temple.  Petosiris  says  that  he  cited  his  scribe and gave him orders to figure a new temple with a wall around it to keep it safe from future floods of the Nile.

During the Eighteenth Dynasty, representations of Heket, with the consistency of a woman, are presented in the divine birth scenes of the king in Queen Hatshepsut temple at Deir el Bahari. In the Netherworld, Heket was present when the deceased was reborn. The frog contract in hieroglyphs was a secret writing  for  the  phrase wehem ankh (doubling life), a phrase that started in the Middle Kingdom used to draw the deceased.

Goddess Astarte

Goddess Astarte name

Goddess Astarte (Ishtar)

Goddess Astarte or (Ishtar) was a goddess starting in Syria and took into Egypt in the New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.E.). Amenhotep II (1427-1401 B.C.E.) erected a Stella observing her in Giza. She was given the rank of a daughter of the god Ra and was made a consort of Set. Astarte helped as the patroness of the pharaohs chariots in martial campaigns. She was depicted as a uncovered woman wearing the atef, or bulls horns. She had attended as a war goddess in Syria.

Goddess Sekhmet

Goddess Sekhmet name

Goddess Sekhmet

Goddess Sekhmet was a powerful war goddess of Egypt, the uprooter of pharaohs enemies, called "She Who Is Powerful". Sekhmet was a lioness  deity, the check of Ptah and the mother of Nefertum and Imhotep in Memphis A daughter of the God Ra, Sekhmet struck at evildoers and broken plagues. She also cured the righteous. Her clergymen were physicians and wizards.

Sekhmet had a modern role among the rulers of Egypt, as she was thought to bring about the innovation of the pharaohs. In the form  of a cobra she was called Mehen, and she possibly came from Nubia (modern Sudan) in the early eras. She  was  also visited the "eye of Ra".

Her statues normally depicted her as a woman with a lions lead, and at sentences she wore a sun disk on her point. In this form she was a warrior expression of the sun, getting flames to devour the oppositions of Egypt. In some eras, the gates of Sekhmet's temples were given as a signal of the onset of a military campaign. Amenemhat III (1844-1797 B.C.E.) admitted 700 statues of Sekhmet in his mortuary temple in Dashur. She  was also portrayed on the wall of the temple of Sahure (2458-2446 B.C.E.) at Abusir. This portrait acquired a widespread reputation for its weird cures.

Bubastis, The Loacation of Bastet's Cult

Bubastis (Tell-Basta-Egypt Delta)

Goddess Bastet was a local deity whose cult was centered in the city of Bubastis, now Tell Basta, which consisted the Delta near what  is  knew  as  Zagazig  today. The  town, knew in  Egyptian as (Per-Bast), carries her name, literally thinking "House of Bast". It was known in Greek as (Boubastis) and understood into Hebrew as P-beset. In the biblical Book of Ezekiel (30:17), the town looks in the Hebrew form Pibeseth