Per-Meskhenet
𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏏𓐚𓆗 𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏏𓁐OK 𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏌𓍢𓄗𓇼
𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏏𓉐𓅆 𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏏𓉐𓆗 𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏏𓉐𓁐
MDC: msxnt
Gardiner:
Budge:
Alt Egyptian: Msḫnt
Transliteration:
Coptic:
Hebrew:
Greek:
Demotic:
Arabic: Mskhnt, Mschent مسخنت
English:
Kemetic:
Alt: Meskhent, Meskhent, Mesenet, Meshkent
Pronounced:
Meaning: "Lady of the birthing chamber brick" - /msxnt/𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏏 "birthing brick" /t/𓏏 "Lady"
Gardiner:
Budge:
Alt Egyptian: Msḫnt
Transliteration:
Coptic:
Hebrew:
Greek:
Demotic:
Arabic: Mskhnt, Mschent مسخنت
English:
Kemetic:
Alt: Meskhent, Meskhent, Mesenet, Meshkent
Pronounced:
Meaning: "Lady of the birthing chamber brick" - /msxnt/𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏏 "birthing brick" /t/𓏏 "Lady"
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Home:
Temple:
Nome:
Consort
Andjety
Sobek
Shai (Late Kingdom) (god of destiny)
Children
Father
Mother
Alternate Parents
Siblings
Priest names
Features
She is depicted with a cow's uteris on her head and holding an ankh. Sometimes with the birthing bricks and a womens head atop the cow's uterus.
Symbols
Cow's uterus
Birth bricks
Roles
Protective household goddess of childbirth. Like Khnemu/Khnum, she was the creator of each child's Ka, a part of their soul, which she breathed into them wile still in the uterus and announces thier destiny at the moment of birth. She is also the godddes of fate. Known for the Egyptian method of birth giving where a women squats over a pair of special bricks called birth bricks.
Mesechenet-weret: Tefnut as the first brick of birth
Mesechenet-aachet: Nut as the second brick of birth
Mesechenet-neferet: Isis as third brick of birth
Mesechenet-menchet: Nephthys as fourth birth brick
Sometimes she helps with the judgement of the dead in the underworld "weighing of souls", . Often acopanies by other gods such as Khnemu/Khnum, Auste/ Isis, Nebet-Hut/ Nephthys and Heqet sometimes ocnsidered the emissaries of Rā. As a goddess of death she helps Renenutet and Shey to be reborn.
Hybrid gods
Connection to other gods
Khnemu/Khnum
Auste/ Isis
Nebet-Hut/ Nephthys
Heqet
Celebrations
Offering items
baby realted objects
Protects
Other names
Epitaphs
ref. wikipedia.org, http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/religion/meskhenet.htm
Temple:
Nome:
Consort
Andjety
Sobek
Shai (Late Kingdom) (god of destiny)
Children
Father
Mother
Alternate Parents
Siblings
Priest names
Features
She is depicted with a cow's uteris on her head and holding an ankh. Sometimes with the birthing bricks and a womens head atop the cow's uterus.
Symbols
Cow's uterus
Birth bricks
Roles
Protective household goddess of childbirth. Like Khnemu/Khnum, she was the creator of each child's Ka, a part of their soul, which she breathed into them wile still in the uterus and announces thier destiny at the moment of birth. She is also the godddes of fate. Known for the Egyptian method of birth giving where a women squats over a pair of special bricks called birth bricks.
Mesechenet-weret: Tefnut as the first brick of birth
Mesechenet-aachet: Nut as the second brick of birth
Mesechenet-neferet: Isis as third brick of birth
Mesechenet-menchet: Nephthys as fourth birth brick
Sometimes she helps with the judgement of the dead in the underworld "weighing of souls", . Often acopanies by other gods such as Khnemu/Khnum, Auste/ Isis, Nebet-Hut/ Nephthys and Heqet sometimes ocnsidered the emissaries of Rā. As a goddess of death she helps Renenutet and Shey to be reborn.
Hybrid gods
Connection to other gods
Khnemu/Khnum
Auste/ Isis
Nebet-Hut/ Nephthys
Heqet
Celebrations
Offering items
baby realted objects
Protects
Other names
Epitaphs
ref. wikipedia.org, http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/religion/meskhenet.htm
