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𓏚𓊪𓂧𓏏𓇼𓁐      𓏚𓏏𓁐       𓊹𓏚𓇼𓏏𓆇      𓋴𓏚𓂧𓏏𓇼​𓁐MK
𓏚𓏏𓇼       𓋴𓏚𓊪𓂧𓏏𓇼OK       𓋴𓊪𓏏𓇋𓇋𓏏𓆇𓁥


MDC : spdt
Gardiner: 
Spd.t
Budge: Sepdet
Transliteration: Sepdet
Coptic:
Soti/ⲥⲟϯ
Hebrew:
Greek: Sôthis/
Σῶθις ,
Satis
Demotic: Satjet/ sTt ?
English: Sothis
Kemetic:
Alt: 
Pronounced:
Sōpdet, sepdet
IPA : ˈsaptʼat > ˈsaptʼaʔ > ˈsaptʼə > (5th BCE Attic Greek) sɔ̂ː.tʰis , (1st CE Egyptian Greek) ˈso.tʰis , (4th CE Koine Greek) ˈso.θis , (10th CE Byzantine Greek-15th CE Constantinopolitan)ˈso.θis ; (modern Egyptological)  sɛpdɛt, sopdɛt
Meaning: She who is sharp "Egyptian name for the star Sirius" : spdt 𓏚𓏏𓇼 "Sirius"
< spd  𓋴𓏚𓂧𓌪 "Sharp" + .t 𓏏 "She"
Picture



​Home: constellation of Orion 
Temple:


Nome:


Consort
Sah (constellation of Orion)
Tenem (Father of Sopdu)

Children
Sopdu (Horu Sopdu) (son)

Parents

Siblings
Sometimes called Wesir/ Osiris Brother 

Female/Male counter part
Sopdu

Priest names
Hm nTr

Features
She is depicted as a women with a 5 pointed star atop her head, most of the time wearing a tall crown similar to the White Crown of Upper Egypt. Early on she was worshiped as a cow-goddess. 



Symbols
Stars
Cows


Roles
She stands for Sirius the brightness star in the night sky. Sirius (heliacal) rises in the July-August sky, the Nile River begins its annual flood, and so the ancient Egyptians connected the two. She is also the goddess of the fertility of the soil. She has said to have been the goddess of the sky and the New Year since the early Dynastic period and patron goddess of the deceased king (pharaoh) who helps thier ascension to heaven. She is as well the goddess of fertility, rebirth and the origin of the world.

Hybrid gods
Auset-Sopdet/ Isis-Sothis

Connection to other gods
Auset/ Isis (in ref to the triad, Sopdet's husband Sah was related to Wesir/Osirus and her son Sopdu Heru/ Horus. 


Celebrations
She brings in the New Year

Offering items
star objects 


Protects




Other names


Epitaphs
it nTrw--Father of the gods
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