Chensite
| Chensite in hieroglyphics | ||||||
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| Chensut / Chensit |
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Chensit (also Chensut ) is a deity of Egyptian mythology ; the meaning of her name is unknown. She was venerated in the 20th Lower Egyptian Gau as a companion of Sopdu and appears for the first time in the pyramid texts of the Old Kingdom . In the later period she belonged to the circle of the goddesses of the eye and the diadem ( Uräus ). It bears the names "Uräus des Sopdu" and "Uräus des Re ". In the proverbs against the god Seth , she is considered the fire goddess who drives out the enemy.
Pictorial representations of the Chensit are very rare and correspond to the forms of representation of the goddesses Isis and Hathor , with which Chensit was often equated. She therefore appears as a woman with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, as a woman with a Maat feather on her head or as a woman with a cow head.
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Chensit , in: Lexikon der Ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte , Hamburg 2000 ISBN 3-937872-08-6 p. 131.
- Eberhard Otto : Chensit . In: Lexicon of Egyptology . Vol. 1, Wiesbaden 1975, column 923