#Wadjet

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

String of Wadjet amulets, 1981BC-1640BC, Egypt.

[egypt-museum]

Wadjet Eye Amulet

Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1070-664 BC. Made of Egyptian faience and aragonite. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 26.7.1032

Wadjet eye amulets were among the most popular amulets of ancient Egypt. The wadjet eye represents the healed eye of the god Horus and embodies healing power as well as regeneration and protection in general.

This faience eye here is an intriguing combination of the regular wadjet eye with a wing, two uraei, and a lion. This combination alludes to various ancient Egyptian stories that involve the eye of the sun-god Re.

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[egypt-ancient-and-modern]

Wadjet-Bastet, with a lioness head, the solar disk, and the cobra that represents Wadjet.

[dwellerinthelibrary]

A copper alloy statuette of Wadjet.

When: Third Intermediate Period

Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

[be-your-bast]

Dua Yinepu, Wepwawet, and Wadjet

(Old art, I don't think my artstation page works anymore. You can find this and more @ deviantart.com/kitryu)

[egypquotes]

Hiiii, I've been seeing your content for a while now, and I think it's great, could you tell me the headcanons you have of the Egyptian gods,especially from Taweret, I love reading them😈

*pull up a chair* oh boy, this is gonna be long. How much time do you have?

Just to let you know, I don't responsabilize myself for how many hcs I have here but im so happy you asked it

Ok, this is a little long and I have more. Press at your own risk

• Osiris and Isis raised Anubis from a baby because Nephthys was afraid to raise him near Seth. Seth was extremely sad about this separation, but refused to ask for his son because of his proud

• Ironically, as the years passed, he became closer to Seth than to Nephthys and still had the good education his uncle and aunt gave him.

• Horus and Serket married after he took the throne and had Hapi, but they never saw each other as a couple and they became good friends over the years. When Horus asked for a divorce to marry Hathor, Serket was happy to help prepare the wedding

• Tawaret and Thoth love to bet on the gender of the pharaohs' babies, the two have been tied for centuries

• Shu loves crafts and sometimes makes small souvenirs by hand for others. He says they are from Tefnut.

• Ra has a perfect memory and yet he still gets his children's names wrong

• Anubis is the kind of guy who just gets tired and leaves a place. Sometimes he does this during conversations and never brings up that again.

• Tawaret and Bes are very close and they often help travelers with small children together, especially if a woman in the group is pregnant. This brought them very close and he always makes her laugh a lot with his jokes.

• Hathor cries at romance movies and likes to randomly quote her favorite scenes. But she is really into mystery series and will give huge speeches about them.

• Heka never ceases to be amazed by humanity's medical advances. Yes, he already knew the cure for this disease, but isn't it amazing that they discovered it too?!

• Thoth loves the color purple and light blue, his outfits are always in this palette.

• Anput started wearing her hair in braids after seeing some foreign women wearing them. She looks stunning

• Osíris is the kind of father who would send a good morning message with flowers and a loud audio in the family group

• Isis and Tawaret are good friends. Tawaret helped her during her pregnancy with Horus, and Isis is extremely grateful for everything. They go out for tea and gossip about the pantheon.

• Hapi and Imseti are very close and are partners in crime. If you see them both running in any direction, go the other way.

• On the other hand, Ihy and Kebechet are a very well-behaved and calm duo. Despite being two children, literally, they are both very easy-going and spend much more time talking than being chaotic

• Horus and Anubis get along very well and see each other as brothers, but neither of them will admit it. Anubis is Horus' right-hand man and always helps him make decisions for the pantheon.

• Khnum sometimes makes personalized statues of the gods he doesn't like and then crushes them. It's therapeutic.

• Tefnut and Nephthys are very sensitive, sometimes they meet and talk about their feelings to make it easier to deal with them.

• Seth and Isis are a great duo, but they can't stand being around each other for too long.

• Nefertem, Sekhmet, and Ptah are a good family and are very close. Even when Ptah and Sekhmet are having a hard time due to their different personalities, they still put Nefertem first and appear at social events together. It's a little chaotic at times, but he makes her smile in a way no one else can.

• Duamutef has an appreciation for music and has learned to play all different types of instruments.

• Ma'at rarely appears to the pantheon, too focused on her work in the Duat to maintain order and peace. She appears once every few millennia, so she and Thoth always go on cute dates and enjoy the few hours they have together. This time apart has never affected either of them, as Thoth is also very busy, and they are a very much in love couple.

• Bastet is definitely a daddy's girl and loves to rub it in her siblings' faces.

• Khonshu has a collection of pictures of the gods falling/making weird faces for fun

• Anubis and Anput are very affectionate and they will stop appearing at some pantheon event to simply be together.

• Qebui likes to race with gods from another pantheon, like Hermes, and the results are between acceptable and chaotic.

• Heka and Apollo are friends and sometimes hang out together.

• Wadjet has caused at least three fights among the pantheon by accidentally saying something too loud.

• Nekhbet is the type of person who doesn't like you and say it on your face

• Heqet is a very sweet and kind goddess, but she is also very gossipy and loves to know all the news of the pantheon.

• Seth, Sekhmet and Sobek are a chaotic and rude trio, but they trust each other a lot. Trust me, you wouldn't want to be against their team

• Nefertem and Seshat are very intelligent and calm gods, but they have -1 IQ when they are together and even laugh in the wind. Osiris don't let them sit together during meetings because they kept disturbing Horus with their laughter.

• Nut is a complicated goddess at times. She is a good mother and grandmother but loves a bit of chaos so her reaction is unpredictable sometimes

• Gebe, on the other hand, is really firmer in his principles. It's easy to know how he will react to certain things and generally the gods feel comfortable talking to him. When Gebe gets angry, which is very rare, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen

• Kebechet is attached to Anubis and learned everything from him, which she is very proud of. Physically, she looks a lot like Anput.

• Khonshu and Ihy really like each other. Sometimes Ihy sneaks out of his parents' house to show Khonshu her new songs. Khonshu travels a lot, but he always brings back a souvenir for Ihy.

• Bes is a great cook and listener. Unintentionally, he became a therapist to several gods because of this.

• Ptah and Khnum sometimes get together to create their sculptures together, but they don't talk much. It's a nice, peaceful silence

• Naunet has a terrible fashion sense and no one has the courage to tell her that

• Bastet is great at gymnastics and likes to use artistic moves during combat. She confuses Seth with this, especially when they are in the middle of a battle.

• Nu can appear in a physical form and interact with other gods, he just chooses not to do so because he is too lazy to interact socially and does not want to get involved in the frequent chaos of the pantheon.

[servantofthegodss]

Dua Wadjet, Wep Tawy 🙏

Praise Wadjet, the one who delimits the Lands

Praise thee, Great of Magic

Praise the Protector of Horus

Praise the Noble Serpent who flowed forth from the Eye

[artistandtales]

Day 9: Wadjet and Nekhbet

#akhtober #egyptian #deities #drawing #mythology #art #wadjet #nekhbet #day9 #digitaldrawing #magic #pagan #witchcraft #illustration #simple #kemetic #firealpaca #artist #artistoninstagram #myart #dahkyarts #artistoftales #artistonig

[thetwistedrope]

so way back in 2019, during the year of rites, i made this to use as a propitiation icon

and after hanging on my wall for 4 years, it had faded pretty badly and was beginning to look like this

and i was like wow how sad, her sun disc is completely vacant now, tf. but after looking at the original image, i realized that the green had faded out pretty badly, too. so it was time for a repaint

s a t u r a t i o n , b a b y

[the-lost-kemetic]

Who is… Wadjet?

I wanted to do this sort of personal mini-series where I talk about the Netjeru that I worship and how I worship them. The Netjeru are all gorgeous, divine beings and worshipping them has made my life so much more enjoyable and fulfilling.

So, who is Lady Wadjet?

Often depicted as an erect cobra with a sun disk on her head (or a woman with a cobra head), Wadjet was said to be the guardian of Lower Egypt, which made her a counterpart to Nekhbet, guardian of Upper Egypt.

There’s one myth about Wadjet that I know of: and that’s when she helps Aset protect Heru from his uncle Sutekh. They took refuge in the delta swamps of the Nile.

Wadjet was revered as the goddess of childbirth, a protector of women, and of kings as well. Her depiction as an erect cobra symbolizes her as being ready to strike against enemies. Her name means “green one”.

The uraeus—a protective symbol of a cobra atop a crown—symbolizes the divinity of royalty in Ancient Egypt. The uraeus represented Wadjet herself.

[thegodstheycall]

"Sacred water canals or lakes, the so‐called Isheru of the ancient Egyptian texts, were distinctive constituting features of such temples. These sacred water bodies provided water for all kinds of purification rites and activities. Most central, however, was their role in the performance of the core element of many religious temple festivals, the rowing of the sacred barque of the deity. The Isheru were especially associated with temples of goddesses who appeared as lionesses, for instance as Sekhmet, Mut, Wadjet, and Bastet. Because the lion goddesses were of an ambivalent nature, oftentimes considered mighty and fierce, the presence of a cooling water body close to their temples was supposed to calm their fiery temperaments as well as to protect the cities’ inhabitants from their potential rage."

J. Meister, P. Garbe, J. Trappe, T. Ullmann, A. Es‐Senussi, R. Baumhauer, E. Lange‐Athinodorou, and A. A. El‐Raouf, The Sacred Waterscape of the Temple of Bastet at Ancient Bubastis, Nile Delta (Egypt), published in Geosciences (2021), Vol. 11, Iss. 9, pp. 1-2

[charring58]

Wadjet (/ˈwædʒət/; Ancient Egyptian: wꜢḏyt "Green One"),[1] known to the Greek world as Uto (/ˈjuːtoʊ/; Koinē Greek: Οὐτώ) or Buto (/ˈbjuːtoʊ/; Βουτώ) among other renderings including Wedjat, Uadjet, and Udjo,[2] was originally the ancient Egyptianlocal goddess of the city of Dep or Buto in Lower Egypt, w

[egypt-museum]

Carnelian Eye of Horus (Wadjet) Amulet

Middle Kingdom, about 1700 BC. Now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 1894.950

[secretcherimaybe]

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Detail of the inner coffin / cartonnage of Nehemsu, from head to chest. A falcon with the head of a green ram spreads its wings over her chest. On the left side, Duamutef and Hapy face Wadjet (I'm guessing -- the columns for their names have been left empty.) I took this photo at the Discovering Ancient Egypt exhibition at the National Museum of Australia.

When: Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty

Where: Rijkmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

[be-your-bast]

Kemetic Gods

Regional Forms (Southwest US/Arizona) Part 3

(Names in the alt text)

Part 1

Part 2