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ikhet_sekhmetI was intrigued to learn that there was, so to speak, a female version of Ra, variously referred to as Raet, Raettawy, and Rettawy.
I found a bit of information about Her in a thesis on the god Montu, who was associated with a number of consorts at different locations. The author describes a statue at Karnak on which an inscription "invokes both Montu-Re who Dwells in Thebes and Rettawy, Mistress of the Gods". She appears in reliefs in the Temple of Khonsu at Karnak, accompanying Montu. Another of Montu's consorts, Tjenenet, is "nearly iconographically identical. Both wear a sheath-dress and a tripartite wig with solar disc and horns atop a low platform." Rettawy also appears on stelae from Deir el-Medina; one with Montu and Tjenenet, one with Queen Ahmose-Nefertary. Werner suggests Rettawy was "a local manifestation of Iunyt", Montu's third consort.
ETA: Found a bit more in The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Raet had appeared by the 5th Dynasty; her name indicates she was invented as a female complement to Ra. The name "Raet" appears in the Pyramid Texts; it's not known when the fuller name "Raettawy" was first used. She was less important in myth than Hathor, who was apparently "viewed as the wife or daughter of Re". She's not depicted often (I'm still looking for a picture). Her festival was "held in the fourth month of the harvest season".
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Werner, Edward Karl. The God Montu: from the earliest attestations to the end of the New Kingdom. Diss. Yale, 1985. Ann Arbor, UMI: 1985.
Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London, 2003.
I found a bit of information about Her in a thesis on the god Montu, who was associated with a number of consorts at different locations. The author describes a statue at Karnak on which an inscription "invokes both Montu-Re who Dwells in Thebes and Rettawy, Mistress of the Gods". She appears in reliefs in the Temple of Khonsu at Karnak, accompanying Montu. Another of Montu's consorts, Tjenenet, is "nearly iconographically identical. Both wear a sheath-dress and a tripartite wig with solar disc and horns atop a low platform." Rettawy also appears on stelae from Deir el-Medina; one with Montu and Tjenenet, one with Queen Ahmose-Nefertary. Werner suggests Rettawy was "a local manifestation of Iunyt", Montu's third consort.
ETA: Found a bit more in The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Raet had appeared by the 5th Dynasty; her name indicates she was invented as a female complement to Ra. The name "Raet" appears in the Pyramid Texts; it's not known when the fuller name "Raettawy" was first used. She was less important in myth than Hathor, who was apparently "viewed as the wife or daughter of Re". She's not depicted often (I'm still looking for a picture). Her festival was "held in the fourth month of the harvest season".
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Werner, Edward Karl. The God Montu: from the earliest attestations to the end of the New Kingdom. Diss. Yale, 1985. Ann Arbor, UMI: 1985.
Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London, 2003.
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Date: 2012-02-17 11:16 am (UTC)