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Sekhmet was considered the wife of the god Ptah and mother of his son Nefertum. She was also said to be the mother of the lion-headed war god, Maahes. She was also considered to be the sister of the cat goddess Bastet. [8] The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet is the most represented deity in most Egyptian collections worldwide.
Believed to have origins as a Nubian goddess, Menhit is always depicted as a lioness with solar disk and a uraeus symbol. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Coffin texts associate her with being a tutelary and solar deity. [ 1 ]
The name is rendered in Phoenician as π€π€π€π€, [7] romanized: ’bst, or π€π€π€, [8] romanized: bst. Wadjet-Bastet, with a lioness head, the solar disk, and the cobra that represents Wadjet. What the name of the goddess means remains uncertain. [6]
God lists known from Ugarit and other prominent Bronze Age Syrian cities regarded her as the counterpart of Assyro-Babylonian goddess Ištar, and of the Hurrian Ishtar-like goddesses Ishara (presumably in her aspect of "lady of love") and Shaushka; in some cities, the western forms of the name and the eastern form "Ishtar" were fully ...
Tefnut (Ancient Egyptian: tfn.t; Coptic: ⲧΟ₯β²β²β² tfΔne) [1] [2] is a deity in Ancient Egyptian religion, the feminine counterpart of the air god Shu.Her mythological function is less clear than that of Shu, [3] but Egyptologists have suggested she is connected with moisture, based on a passage in the Pyramid Texts in which she produces water, and on parallelism with Shu's connection ...
A Hindu group has gone to court in India over the naming of a lioness in a zoo after the Hindu deity Sita, calling it blasphemous and an assault on the community's religious beliefs. The Vishva ...
Is Special Ops: Lioness based on a true story?. The all-female Lioness team in the show is inspired by a real-life unit created by the U.S. Marines, although their purpose was different. Task ...
While Thoth, the god of hieroglyphs and judgment, would record the results. [30] The heart of the deceased was weighed against the feather of Ma'at , [ c ] the goddess of truth. [ 4 ] [ 15 ] [ 28 ] The feather of Ma'at symbolized the balance, and truthfulness needed to be present during one's lifetime.