#Wadjet

[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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[shewhoworshipscarlin]

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

[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)

[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

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[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.

[secretcherimaybe]

[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

[egypt-museum]

Carnelian Eye of Horus (Wadjet) Amulet

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

[mateuscosme]

[darieyrie]

hosted a secret santa event on a neoclone i play! i got to draw this cute little bori for user Nidorina and his wadjet petpet! 

[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