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Per-Mafdet

𓌳𓆑𓂧𓌀𓃮ancient     𓌳𓁹𓆑𓂧𓏏𓌞𓅆OK      𓃬𓌞MK 𓌳𓄿𓆑𓂧𓏏𓃠NK          𓌳𓄿𓇋𓆑𓏏𓄛LK         𓏠𓈖𓆑𓏏𓆇𓃠Greco-Roman

Picture
Mafdet symbol
MDC: mfdt
Gardiner: Mafdet, MꜢfd.t
Budge: mafḍ-t
Hannig: M3fd.t

Transliteration: Mafdet
Coptic: 
Hebrew:
Greek: 
Demotic:  
English: Mafdet
Kemetic:
Alt: Maftet
Pronounced: Mafdet
Meaning: To spring up, to leap, to jump

Picture
Cheetah form
Picture
Mafdet in Egyptian mongoose form
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Children

Parents
Rā

Siblings

Priest names

Features
Often represented as either some sort of feline, serval, cheetah, panthor or cat, or ichneumon (African mongoose) with a body of a women. Also apears as a panther. In Abydos she was a divine panther holding a was scepter in her right paw. Greco-Roman she would appear as a lion-headed serpent

Symbols
Egyptian Mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), (considered divine because of its ability to kill dangerous snakes)
Civet
Cat
Executioner blade
Rope
Pole
Magic knife
Serpent
Scorpions
Mafdet's claw

Roles
Goddess who protected against snakes, scorpions various venomous animals who stood in transgression of Ma'at. Protector of Rā. She was involved with justice or capital punishment and the protection of the King's chambers and sacred places. Seen as the goddess of execution, her symbol is a feline running up the side of a pole with a knife attached to the end.  Known for her powerful claws. Early Period she was a goddess of the Duat , in which she is active as a sky panther. She also functioned as an execution, where she eats the heads of executed criminals. She would wear a panther skin and help Anpu/Anubis with embalming Osiris. In the New Kingdom she is the one who rips out the heart of Apep/Apophis.

Hybrid gods

Connection to other gods
Nut (Nut later on took over some of Mafdet fuctions)
Nebet-Hut/ Nephthys (embodied Greco-Romen Period)
Menhit  (
assumed the functions of Greco-Romen Period)
Mut (
assumed the functions of Greco-Romen Period)

Bastet (became more popular)

Celebrations

Offering items


Protects


Other names

Epitaphs
miwt wrt- -Great cat
nbt n r-anx - Lady of the House of Life
nbt Hwt- anx - Mistress of the House of Life" -
Avenger of the King
union of the limbs of Osiris
Slayer of serpents

Invocations


Re arises, his uraeus upon him, against this snake which came forth from the earth and which is under my fingers. He will cut off your (i.e. the snake's) head with this knife which is in the hand of Mafdet who dwells in the Mansion of Life.

Utterance 298, R. O. Faulkner, The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts

ref.
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/religion/mafdet.htm



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