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Wadjet (/ ˈ w æ dʒ ə t /; Ancient Egyptian: wꜢḏyt "Green One"), [1] known to the Greek world as Uto (/ ˈ j uː t oʊ /; Koinē Greek: Οὐτώ) or Buto (/ ˈ b j uː t oʊ /; Βουτώ) among other renderings including Wedjat, Uadjet, and Udjo, [2] was originally the ancient Egyptian local goddess of the city of Dep or Buto in Lower ...
In Ancient Egyptian texts, the "Two Ladies" (Ancient Egyptian: nbtj, sometimes anglicized Nebty) was a religious epithet for the goddesses Wadjet and Nekhbet, two deities who were patrons of the ancient Egyptians and worshiped by all after the unification of its two parts, Lower Egypt, and Upper Egypt. When the two parts of Egypt were joined ...
The Nebty name was symbolically linked to the two most important goddesses of Ancient Egyptian kingship: Nekhbet and Wadjet. Whilst Nekhbet (Egypt. Nekhebety; "she from Nekheb") was the "mistress of Upper Egypt", her pendant Wadjet (Egypt. Wadyt; "she who thrives" or simply "lady of the green") was the "mistress of Lower Egypt". Nekhbet was ...
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Buto was a sacred site in dedication to the goddess Wadjet. [6] It was an important cultural site during prehistoric Egypt (before 3100 BCE).. The Buto-Maadi culture was the most important Lower Egyptian prehistoric culture, dating from 4000–3500 BC, [7] and contemporary with Naqada I and II phases in Upper Egypt.
A temple at the site, dedicated to the goddess Wadjet, the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, may have been constructed during the Ramesside Period. Yet the evidence of inscriptions discovered at the site "clearly indicates that occupation begun in the 18th Dynasty". [4] Wadjet was worshipped in the area as the 'Lady of Imet'.
Nekhbet (/ ˈ n ɛ k ˌ b ɛ t /; [1] also spelt Nekhebit) is an early predynastic local goddess in Egyptian mythology, who was the patron of the city of Nekheb (her name meaning of Nekheb). Ultimately, she became the patron of Upper Egypt and one of the two patron deities (alongside Wadjet) for all of Ancient Egypt when it was unified. [2]
Later, as a snake goddess worshiped over the whole of Lower Egypt, Renenutet was increasingly associated with Wadjet, Lower Egypt's powerful protector and another snake goddess represented as a cobra. Eventually Renenutet was identified as an alternate form of Wadjet, whose gaze was said to slaughter enemies.