Per-Shay
𓆷𓄿𓇌𓀭 𓆷𓄿𓐎
𓆷𓄿𓇌
MDC: SAy, Sy; Saw?
Gardiner: šꜢy
Budge:
Alt Egyptian: Š3j
Transliteration: Shey
Coptic: ϣⲁⲓ/ Shai (fortune, fate)
Hebrew:
Greek: Psais, Psois
Demotic: Šy
Arabic:
English: Shai
Kemetic:
Alt: Sai, Shay, Shai
Pronounced: Shaʰē, Shaʰēt (female)
Meaning: /SA/ 𓆷𓄿𓏛 "decide" , "appoint", "assign" ; /Saw/ 𓆷𓅱𓏜 "fate"
Gardiner: šꜢy
Budge:
Alt Egyptian: Š3j
Transliteration: Shey
Coptic: ϣⲁⲓ/ Shai (fortune, fate)
Hebrew:
Greek: Psais, Psois
Demotic: Šy
Arabic:
English: Shai
Kemetic:
Alt: Sai, Shay, Shai
Pronounced: Shaʰē, Shaʰēt (female)
Meaning: /SA/ 𓆷𓄿𓏛 "decide" , "appoint", "assign" ; /Saw/ 𓆷𓅱𓏜 "fate"
Home:
Temple: Opet in Ipet-Isut
Nome:
Consort
Mesenet
Renenutet / goddess of harvest, names and child birth (later on)
Children
Father
Mother
Alternate Parents
Siblings
Female version of the god
/SAyt/ 𓆷𓄿𓇌𓏏𓆗
Priest names
Followers
Features
Some times depicted as a cobra, a man with the head of snake, or a brick or stand with a human head, but mostly as a male, some have linked the God Shāu/ Shai to the word /SA/ "pig" so in the Hellenic period Shai is sometimes depicted as a serpent-headed pig called the Shai animal. Sometimes appears as a female in relation to birth.
Symbols
serpent
pig/ SA
Shai animal /SA
Roles
Shāu/Shai is the god of the fate and destiny possibly even luck. He decreeded what should happen to man goof or bad fate. Determined the span of each person's life. He was mostly seen as male but had a female aspect as well called Shāut/Shait. He was said to be with a person since birth.
Hybrid gods
Connection to other gods
Agathodaemon (Ptolemaic Egypt, God of fortune telling)
Meskhenet, goddess of the birth brick and fate
Seven Hut-Horut/ Hathors
Sutekh/Set (connection to chaotic behavior of fate and the pig/ SA)
Ra, Amun and Ptah (Shay became knwon as a crator god Late period)
Renenutet, the goddess who would give a child
Celebrations
Offering items
Protects
Other names
Epitaphs
nTr m nTrw -- the god of gods
Shai of all gods
The Aten is the Shai who gives life (Akhenaten claimed)
Temple: Opet in Ipet-Isut
Nome:
Consort
Mesenet
Renenutet / goddess of harvest, names and child birth (later on)
Children
Father
Mother
Alternate Parents
Siblings
Female version of the god
/SAyt/ 𓆷𓄿𓇌𓏏𓆗
Priest names
Followers
Features
Some times depicted as a cobra, a man with the head of snake, or a brick or stand with a human head, but mostly as a male, some have linked the God Shāu/ Shai to the word /SA/ "pig" so in the Hellenic period Shai is sometimes depicted as a serpent-headed pig called the Shai animal. Sometimes appears as a female in relation to birth.
Symbols
serpent
pig/ SA
Shai animal /SA
Roles
Shāu/Shai is the god of the fate and destiny possibly even luck. He decreeded what should happen to man goof or bad fate. Determined the span of each person's life. He was mostly seen as male but had a female aspect as well called Shāut/Shait. He was said to be with a person since birth.
Hybrid gods
Connection to other gods
Agathodaemon (Ptolemaic Egypt, God of fortune telling)
Meskhenet, goddess of the birth brick and fate
Seven Hut-Horut/ Hathors
Sutekh/Set (connection to chaotic behavior of fate and the pig/ SA)
Ra, Amun and Ptah (Shay became knwon as a crator god Late period)
Renenutet, the goddess who would give a child
Celebrations
Offering items
Protects
Other names
Epitaphs
nTr m nTrw -- the god of gods
Shai of all gods
The Aten is the Shai who gives life (Akhenaten claimed)
