Schesemtet
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Schesemtet Šsmtt |
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Schesemtet (also Chesmet or Schesmetet ) is the mother of the dead and kings in Egyptian mythology . She is depicted as a Uraeus snake and is the companion and protector of Re as well as the destroyer of the enemies of Osiris .
Around November 25th celebrated the feast of the departure of the Schesemtet .
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd, unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 679 → Schesemtet.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Felde: Egyptian gods. 2nd expanded and improved edition, R. Felde Eigenverlag, Wiesbaden 1995, p. 54.