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Goddess name "Serket[-hetyt]" | Egypt | A minor mortuary goddess |
Goddess name "Serkethetyt" | Egypt | Minor mortuary goddess Egypt |
Goddess name "Serqet" | Egypt | Goddess of the morning star Egypt |
Goddess name "Ses'at" | Egypt | Goddess of libraries and the art of writing. Known from 2500 BC, or earlier, until the end of Egyptian history circa AD 400. She is depicted anthropomorphically bearing a seven-pointed star or rosette on her head, sometimes atop a wand and below a bow-shaped object. Early in her career she was åśśociated with the ritual of stretching the cord during which boundary poles were rammed into the ground by the king before measuring out the foundations of a sanctuary. As a scribe she recorded the lists of foreign captives and their tributes. At Karnak in Upper Egypt and at Dendara she recorded the royal jubilees on a notched palm stem.See also SEFKHET-ABWY.... |
Goddess name "Sesat" | Egypt | Goddess of Books and knowledge Egypt |
Goddess name "Seshat" | Egypt | Goddess of writing and measurement, also the patroness of mathmatics, architecture and record-keeping. Egypt |
Goddess name "Sesmetet" | See also SAKHMET | Egyptian goddess. Seta... |
Goddess name "Shait" | Egypt | Goddess of justice Egypt |
Goddess name "Sobek (rager)" | Egypt | God epitomizing the might of the pharaohs. Said to be the son of NEITH, the creator goddess of Sais. He is depicted as a crocodile wearing a plumed headdress, or as a part-human hybrid. The crocodile imagery suggests an ability to attack and kill with sudden speed. Sobek's cult was extensive along the Nile valley, but was particularly prominent in the fertile Faiyum region. Near Aswan in Upper Egypt a sanctuary dedicated to Sobek identifies him as the consort of HATHOR and the father of KHONSU. Also Suchos (Greek).... |
Goddess name "Sofh" | Egypt | Goddess of education and letters. Egypt |
Goddess name "Sothis" | Egypt Hellenic | The astral goddess that heralds Arias of the Nile |
Goddess name "Sothis Egypt" | Hellenic | Astral goddess who heralds Arias of the Nile Hellenic |
Goddess name "Sothis [Greek]" | Egypt | Astral goddess. She heralds the Nile inundation as the personification of the star Sirius which rises coincidentally in the dawn sky in July. She is depicted as a nude figure wearing the conical white crown of Lower Egypt surmounted by a star. Late in Egyptian history she becomes largely syncretized with ISIS. Also Sopdet (Egyptian).... |
Goddess name "Su" | Egypt | Primordial god of the air. According to the genealogy of the priests of Heliopolis, he is the first born of the creator Sun god ATUM and by his sister TEFNUT is the father of the chthonic god GEB and the sky goddess NUT. S u is typically represented in human form standing over the supine form of Geb and holding Nut aloft with his raised arms. He can also, as one of several manifestations of the eye of RE, be represented as a lion, as can his sister.... |
Goddess name "Ta-Bitjet" | Egypt | A scorpion goddess and the blood that flowed from when Horus ruptured her hymen can serve as a panacea for all poisons. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ta-Bitjet" | Egypt | Scorpion goddess. In incantations against scorpion bite she is identified as a consort of the god HORUS. Her blood, which flowed when Horus ruptured her hymen, is considered to possess magical and remedial properties against the poison.... |
Goddess name "Ta-bitjet" | Egypt | Goddess who protects against scorpion bite, though her symbol is the scorpion Egypt |
Goddess name "Tasenetnofret" | Egypt | Goddess Egypt |