More from Complete Gods and Goddesses
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ikhet_sekhmetBecause I want to take it back to the library!
Mut replaced Amaunet as Amun's wife, part of a triad with Khonsu. She was the "southern counterpart" of Sekhmet, and could be joined with Bastet as Mut-Bastet. She could be shown as a lioness-headed woman, or a woman wearing a vulture headdress combined with either the white crown or the double crown.
Mut.
One of Egypt's oldest deities, Neith was a warrior goddess, creatrix, mother goddess, funerary goddess, and patron of Lower Egypt. She was called "mistress of the bow" and "ruler of arrows"; her emblem was "two crossed arrows mounted on a pole"; the Greeks identified her with Athena. In The Contendings of Horus and Seth she is called the oldest god, creator of the gods and humanity, and is a counsellor to Ra. She's often shown wearing the red crown. Her worship starts in prehistoric times and continues to the end of the pharoahs.
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Neith in various forms. The headdress in the rightmost image is made up of two bows.
(I'm trying not to duplicate info already present in earlier postings, which you can of course find by clicking on the appropriate tags.)
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Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London, 2003.
Mut replaced Amaunet as Amun's wife, part of a triad with Khonsu. She was the "southern counterpart" of Sekhmet, and could be joined with Bastet as Mut-Bastet. She could be shown as a lioness-headed woman, or a woman wearing a vulture headdress combined with either the white crown or the double crown.
Mut.
One of Egypt's oldest deities, Neith was a warrior goddess, creatrix, mother goddess, funerary goddess, and patron of Lower Egypt. She was called "mistress of the bow" and "ruler of arrows"; her emblem was "two crossed arrows mounted on a pole"; the Greeks identified her with Athena. In The Contendings of Horus and Seth she is called the oldest god, creator of the gods and humanity, and is a counsellor to Ra. She's often shown wearing the red crown. Her worship starts in prehistoric times and continues to the end of the pharoahs.
.Neith in various forms. The headdress in the rightmost image is made up of two bows.
(I'm trying not to duplicate info already present in earlier postings, which you can of course find by clicking on the appropriate tags.)
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Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London, 2003.
