Mesechenet
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Mesechenet Msḫnt The place of birth |
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Mesechenet with a cow uterus on its head | |||||||
Mesechenet as a brick |
Mesechenet (formerly: Meschenet ) is an ancient Egyptian goddess of birth and death .
meaning
As the goddess of birth, she not only monitors the birth of a child, but also determines its fate . As the goddess of the dead, she helps the gods Shai and Renenutet to rebirth, which is why she is also represented at the judgment of the dead . As a birth tile, she always appears in fusion with one of the birth goddesses:
- Mesechenet-weret: Tefnut as the first birth brick
- Mesechenet-aachet: groove as the second birth tile
- Mesechenet-neferet: Isis as the third birth brick
- Mesechenet-menchet: Nephthys as the fourth birth brick
presentation
She is shown as a woman with the uterus of a cow on her head, but mostly as a brick (birth brick) with a female head on the forehead.
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd, unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 .
- Alexandra von Lieven : The sky over Esna - A case study on religious astronomy in Egypt using the example of the cosmological ceiling and architrave inscriptions in the temple of Esna . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04324-5 .