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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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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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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DID YOU KNOW? Isis Couldn't Stop an Earthquake

The great goddess Isis possessed numerous sanctuaries throughout the Mediterranean world and in her native Egypt, of course, but earthquake-prevention was apparently not part of her magical repertoire. The deity's massive "Festival Temple" at Behbeit (in the Nile Delta) collapsed in a heap following an earthquake, sometime before 79 CE.

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DID YOU KNOW? Neith Was Worshipped at Esna

The creative goddess Neith actually shared with Khnum the great temple at Esna. In the Latopolite district's massive sanctuary, we learn that Neith helped Khnum create the world and then turned herself into a fish before swimming north to her primary cult-center at Sais, in the Nile delta.

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~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? Hathor & Sekhmet Shared a Temple

The goddesses Hathor and Sekhmet were, in many respects, considered to be alternate forms of each other. One represented the "distant, raging" goddess, while the other represented the "pacified, festive" deity. The dualism was potent, and the two goddesses owned a temple together in the town of Imaou.

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~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

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~What The Ancient Goddesses Represent TODAY

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DID YOU KNOW? Satis of Elephantine was the Flood-Queen

Satis (or Satet) was one of the most ancient goddesses of pharaonic Egypt. Her cult on the island of Elephantine, near the First Cataract of the Nile, possibly predated that of Khnum, who later became the chief deity of the region. Associated with Sirius, the Dog-Star, Satis was linked with the annual flood and her temple at Elephantine was built atop a natural aperture in the rock. From this aperture, it is believed, fluctuating water-levels could be detected via sounds that served as "oracles" of the coming inundation.

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DID YOU KNOW? Hat-Mehit Became a Form of Isis?

Hat-Mehit was the chief goddess of the region near Mendes in the ancient Egyptian Delta. There, she was associated with the ram-headed god Banebdjet. In Greco-Roman times, these two gods were assimilated to Osiris and Isis. Hat-Mehit (whose sacred animal was a fish), was also honored with a cult in Isis's great "Festival Temple" at Behbeit.

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DID YOU KNOW? TaSenet-Nofret Was "The Good Sister"

In the famous "dual-axis" temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Kom Ombo, each of the male gods possessed their own structured families. Forming part of these equations were Hathor and a local fertility goddess named Tasenet-nofret, whose name meant "The Good [or Beautiful] Sister."

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DID YOU KNOW? Bast Had Kitten-Strangling Priests

Domestic cats were utterly sacred to the feline-goddess Bast, Mistress of Joy and Sensuality. So sacred that some kittens in the Temple of Bast in the city of Bubastis appear to have been strangled by priests in sacrifice to their patron. To learn more about Bast and other great Egyptian goddesses, order The Intrepid Wanderer's Guide to Ancient Egyptian Goddesses from Amazon (or your preferred retailer). Click on the appropriate book cover-link to the right.

DID YOU KNOW? Anukis Worshipped at Elephantine

Anukis was the goddess of the productive inundation along the Nile. Her cult centered at the Egyptian frontier near the First Cataract of the Nile, at Elephantine Island. She wore a headdress of ostrich-plumes and was associated with the gods Khnum, Satis, and the Osirian deity Nephthys. Her sacred animal was the dorcas gazelle. To learn more about Anukis and other great Egyptian goddesses, order The Intrepid Wanderer's Guide to Ancient Egyptian Goddesses from Amazon (or your preferred retailer). Click on the appropriate book cover-link to the right.

DID YOU KNOW? Nut Was a Gambling Goddess

Nut, the Heliopolitan goddess of the Firmament, gave birth to her five famous children (Osiris, Isis, Seth, Nephthys, and Haroeris) only after winning extra calendar-days from the god Thoth in a board-game!

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DID YOU KNOW? Serqet: The Healing Goddess

The scorpion was the sacred animal of the funerary-goddess Serqet. Ancient Egyptian texts, however, may indicate that priests of Serqet were skilled in countering the effects of neurotoxic scorpion-venom. The goddess's name appears to mean "She Who Opens The Throat," which could imply that Serqet's powers were invoked against the pulmonary collapse that often accompanied a sting by her own totemic animal.

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DID YOU KNOW? Hathor was a Great Funerary Goddess

Most Egyptophiles are aware that Hathor was a goddess of joy, music, and sexuality, but she was also an important funerary goddess. In her guise as Hathor-Amentet, she was a patroness of the Land of the Dead and "Mistress of the West." This is one of the reasons she possessed her own little temple within the great funerary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri.

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