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Per-Shay

𓆷𓄿𓇌𓀭    ​ 𓆷𓄿𓇌𓏏𓆗    𓆷𓄿𓐎
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MDC: SAy, Sy, Saw?
Gardiner: šꜢy
Budge: 
Transliteration:
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/ 'assign, ordain', /SAy/ 'appoint' , /Saw/ 𓆷𓅱𓏜 'fate'
Picture
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

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/ maning pig so in the Hellenic period Shai is sometimes depicted as a serpent-headed pig called the Shai animal. 

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)
​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)

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)

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