Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Mehet-Weret (great flood)" | Egypt | Minor goddess åśśociated with creation accounts. In some versions of the story she epitomizes the primeval ocean, while in others she is the waterway on which the barque of the Sun god RE travels. She is depicted as a cow bearing a Sun disc between its horns and lying on papyrus reeds.... |
Goddess name "Mehet-uret" | Egypt | Goddess who was the embodiment of all primeval waters Egypt |
Goddess name "Mehit" | Egypt | Goddess of lions Egypt |
Goddess name "Mehit/ Mechit" | Egypt | A lion goddess |
Goddess name "Mehturt" | Egypt | Goddess of the sky Egypt |
Goddess name "Menchit" | Egypt | Originally a foreign war goddess, and the female counterpart, and thus wife, to Anhur. It was said that she had come from Nubia with Anhur. Her name depicts this warrior status, as it means she who måśśacres. Egypt |
Goddess name "Menhit" | Egypt | Lion goddess Egypt |
Goddess name "Menhit/ Menchit" | Egypt | A lion goddess |
Goddess name "Meret/ Mer" | Egypt | A goddess of song & rejoicing as well as the treasury |
Goddess name "Meretseger" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess who brings illness and death to the disrespectful. Egypt |
Goddess name "Meretseger" | Egypt | Localized chthonic goddess åśśociated with the underworld. At Thebes she acted in either benign or destructive fashion against workers building tombs in the Valley of the kings. She is generally depicted as a coiled cobra which may possess a human head and arm. One of the best representations is on the sarcophagus of Rameses III. She lost her popularity when the use of Thebes as a royal cemetery was discontinued early in the first millennium BC.... |
Goddess name "Meretseger/ Meresger" | Egypt | A chthonic underworld goddess who brings illness and death to the disrespectful |
Goddess name "Mesenet" | Egypt | Goddess of the birth tile Egypt |
Goddess name "Meskhenet" | Egypt | Goddess of prophecy, childbirth, reincarnation, fate and justice Egypt |
Goddess name "Meskhoni" | Egypt | Goddess birth and midwives Egypt |
Goddess name "Mihos" | Egypt | Lion god. The son of the goddess BASTET. Depicted in leonine form and originating from a cult center at Leontopolis [Tell el'Muqdam] in Lower Egypt. A sanctuary in his honor was built at Bubastis. Also Miysis (Greek).... |
Goddess name "Mut" | Egypt | An ancient Egyptian mother goddess with multiple aspects that changed over the centuries. Rulers of Egypt supported her worship in their own way to emphasize their own authority and right to rule. Egypt |
Goddess name "Mut" | Egypt | The patron goddess of Thebes. In Upper Egypt she is the counterpart of SAKHMET, the Lower Egyptian goddess from Memphis. After superseding the goddess AMAUNET, she became locally the consort of the Sun god AMUN, in which capacity she is the mother of the moon god KHONSU. She was also regarded as the Divine mother of the Theban kings. Mut is depicted in human form wearing a vulture headdress sur mounted by the twin crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. She is typically dressed in a bright red or blue patterned gown. Less frequently she is drawn with a lion's head. She enjoyed a cult center at Thebes where her sanctuary was known as the Iseru.... |