DID YOU KNOW? Ammut was the Eater of Souls

In the legends and spells that concern the Book of the Dead, a goddess named Ammut waited during the "Weighing of the Human Heart" for a less than desirable outcome. At the final judgment of the human soul in Duat, Anubis oversaw the scales that determined ultimate justice. If the feather of Maat (Truth) did not balance against the heart, the hapless deceased would find the goddess Ammut--with the mouth of a crocodile, spots of a leopard, and hindparts of a hippo--waiting to devour the soul.

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DID YOU KNOW? Mut...the Alter-Ego of Sekhmet

Mut, the great consort-goddess of Amun-Ra, seems originally to have been a local mother-deity of the small town of Megen, outside Thebes.

Mut's cult was introduced at Thebes sometime before Dynasty XVIII and the goddess quickly grew in popularity, status and influence, gradually replacing the goddess Amunet...not necessarily as Amun-Ra's "wife," but as his chief complementary power.

Once identified with Sekhmet, the prestigious lioness-headed goddess of Memphis, Mut would become the most politically powerful goddess in Egypt. Her beautiful temple in the Asheru district of Thebes was an important subsidiary of Amun-Ra's "Great Temple" of Karnak. The "House of the Mistress of Asheru" boasted a sacred lake curiously similar to one belonging to Mut's associated goddess, Bastet, in the Nile Delta-region.

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~Ancient Egypt's 21 Most Important Goddesses, Fully Profiled and Examined

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~Illustrative Maps of the Goddess-Territories

~Temple Customs, Rites, and Locations Explored

~A Gallery of Other Chief Egyptian Goddesses

~Isis, Hathor, Mut, Serqet, Wadjet, Nekhbet, Tefnut, Nephthys, and many more!

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DID YOU KNOW? Wadjet Worshipped at Pelusium

Wadjet was the famed cobra-goddess of Buto in the Nile Delta, but she was also worshipped in the great city of Pelusium and at Avaris during the Ramesside period.

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~Ancient Egypt's 21 Most Important Goddesses, Fully Profiled and Examined

~A Comprehensive Survey of the Chief Goddess Cult-Centers of Ancient Egypt

~Dozens of Lavish, Original Illustrations and Photographs

~Illustrative Maps of the Goddess-Territories

~Temple Customs, Rites, and Locations Explored

~A Gallery of Other Chief Egyptian Goddesses

~Isis, Hathor, Mut, Serqet, Wadjet, Nekhbet, Tefnut, Nephthys, and many more!

~What The Ancient Goddesses Represent TODAY

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DID YOU KNOW? Renenutet, Goddess of the Oasis

Renenutet was a goddess depicted with the head (and sometimes body) of a cobra. These deadly serpents inhabited the fertile farmland near the Nile and various oases, but they were also a symbol of the harvest for ancient Egyptians. Renenutet was particularly revered in the Fayyum Oasis, alongside the crocodile-deity, Sobek, and his various incarnations. Renenutet's temple ruins--some dating back to Dynasty XII--can still be seen today.

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~Ancient Egypt's 21 Most Important Goddesses, Fully Profiled and Examined

~A Comprehensive Survey of the Chief Goddess Cult-Centers of Ancient Egypt

~Dozens of Lavish, Original Illustrations and Photographs

~Illustrative Maps of the Goddess-Territories

~Temple Customs, Rites, and Locations Explored

~A Gallery of Other Chief Egyptian Goddesses

~Isis, Hathor, Mut, Serqet, Wadjet, Nekhbet, Tefnut, Nephthys, and many more!

~What The Ancient Goddesses Represent TODAY

246 pages

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