Per-Meskhenet
𓄟𓋴𓐍𓈖𓏏𓈙𓆗
MDC: msxnt
Gardiner: Msḫnt
Budge:
Transliteration:
Coptic:
Hebrew:
Greek:
Demotic:
Arabic: Mskhnt, Mschent مسخنت
English:
Kemetic:
Alt: Meskhent, Mesekhnet, Mesenet, Meshkent
Pronounced:
Meaning: Lady of the birthing chamber
Gardiner: Msḫnt
Budge:
Transliteration:
Coptic:
Hebrew:
Greek:
Demotic:
Arabic: Mskhnt, Mschent مسخنت
English:
Kemetic:
Alt: Meskhent, Mesekhnet, Mesenet, Meshkent
Pronounced:
Meaning: Lady of the birthing chamber
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 birth giving. Like Khnemu/Khnumshe 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. Know for the Egyptian method of birth giving where a women squats over a pair of special bricks called birth bricks. She is assicated with fate and prohesis. Sometimes she helps with the judgement of the dead. Often acopanies by other gods such as Khnemu/Khnum, Auste/ Isis, Nebet-Hut/ Nephthys and Heqet sometimes ocnsidered the emissaries of Rā.
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 birth giving. Like Khnemu/Khnumshe 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. Know for the Egyptian method of birth giving where a women squats over a pair of special bricks called birth bricks. She is assicated with fate and prohesis. Sometimes she helps with the judgement of the dead. Often acopanies by other gods such as Khnemu/Khnum, Auste/ Isis, Nebet-Hut/ Nephthys and Heqet sometimes ocnsidered the emissaries of Rā.
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
