Mesechenet

Mesechenet in hieroglyphics
Old empire
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or	Mesechenet Msḫnt The place of birth
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

• List of Egyptian gods

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 .

Web links

• Finding a birth brick

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cf. 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, p. 101.