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Mehurt, Celestial-Cow.
M]HWrT
Alternate meaning: Great-Flood.
[to Whom the twentieth day of September, day 263, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Egyptian.
Description: Goddess of infinite space; Mother of the sky and the sun; Celestial Cow; Heaven's Ocean; She along Whose belly Ra proceeds each day in his solar bark; Protectress of the dead.
To Whom Sacred: lotus of the world; cow; Methyer (Greek name for Heaven's Ocean); the number 18; the stomach (in canopic jars).
Male Associates: son/brother/consort, Anhur, He-who-brought-back-the-far-off, or Support-of-the-heaven, god of war.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- As protectress of the dead She is associated with Isis, Lap-of-Power.
- Transcription variant
Meh-Urt
.
- Perhaps variant Mehit, ----, below. {There seems little similarity between the Mehurt and Mehit apart from their association with Anhur, and I believe I may have extrapolated this -- based on the apparent name similarity -- for I find no reference to Mehurt's association with Anhur in the single source given below.}
- Transcription variant
Mehturt
.
- Transcription variant
Meht-urt
.
- Transcription variant
Mehueret
.
- Title of: Neith, World-Weaver.
Source: Mercatante WWEM 93-4.
Mai-Hesa, Fierce-Eyed.
MI-H]S1
Geography/Culture: Egyptian. Worshipped at Bubastis.
Description: Lion headed Goddess.
To Whom Sacred: lynx.
Male Associates: consort, a lion, (worshipped at Leontopolis), identified with Anhur.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- See also Maftet, Lady-of-the-Castle-of-Life, (Who is linked with Ubasti, She-of-the-City-Bast), a lynx Goddess.
- Also called, or variant, Mehit, ----, {which in the Western writing system looks like a variant of Mehurt -- but the Hieroglyphic forms may be quite distinct.}
- She seems to be confused with Sekhmet, Powerful-One, or perhaps Mai-Hesa, Fierce-Eyed, is an alternate name for Her.
- Alternate name for, or identified with Tefnut, Dew-of-Dawn.
- Ubasti, She-of-the-City-Bast, is also worhispped at Bubastis.
Source: Ions EM 46, 125.
worked on: September, August, June 1995; August 1991.
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