#goddess Hatmehyt

[shxinny]

¿Sabían que las sirenas también eran deidades en el antiguo Nuevo Oriente y en la antigua África?

Este es el caso de Hatmehyt y de Yam, netkheru asociados a las sirenas y a los tritones, pronto les dedicaré un post a cada uno de ellos.

[buzz-london]

INDIA / EGYPT - THE BHARAT :

Our Heritage : Our Pride, Our Identity :

The similarities between the Vedic Gods and Egyptian Gods are numerous and striking.

Vedic Gods in Egyptian Pyramids and Literature

GARUD :

Garud is younger brother of Aruna. Garuda associated with Garud Puran, book that deals with soul after death. Horus is associated with Egyptian book of the dead. Just like Horus, Garud often acts as a messenger between the gods and men and is called the ranger of the skies. Anzu steals the tablets of destiny. Anzu is the servant of chief sky god Enlil. Ninruta chases Anzu with his thunderbolts. Garud steals the elixir of immortality. Garud is the servant of chief Bhagwan Vishnu. Indra chases Garud with his thunderbolts.

DAKSH :

Khnum is referred to as father of the fathers and fathered many gods and goddesses. Daksh was one of the sons of Brahma and a main prajapati from whose line Dev's and Asur's come from. Many goddesses like Aditi, Diti, Danu, Sati etc came from Daksh. Daksh was known as the bright one. Both of them are depicted with the head of a goat like creature. Daksh is believed to have started sexual reproduction. Heqet, wife of Khnum is associated with childbirth. Prasuti Tantra, the book of obstetrics is named after Prasuti, the wife of Daksh.

MATSYADEV :

Matsya, incarnation of Bhagwan Vishnu is mentioned as Hatmehit, or Hatmehyt in Egyptian History. The name literally means Protector-chief of fish. Hatmehit is always related with Mehet-Weret, meaning great flood. When the world was consumed by the oceanic water, Bhagwan Vishnu appeared in the form of a fish and saved the species of animals, plants and humans. Hatmehit is depicted with a horn on His head and a snake tied to it. As we know, Matsya was a large golden fish with a horn to which a huge boat was tied by the king of serpents, Vasuki.

[rudjedet]

Hello!

Can I ask what your favourite Egyptian god is and possibly why? Mine is Sekhmet! Sekhmet is associated both with disease and with healing and medicine from my understanding.

She is! She's also one of the goddesses that double as the Eye of Re, which I think is a very interesting concept - in simple words, the Eye goddess is a force of violence and vengeance, used to subdue Re's enemies.

I don't really have a favourite god in the sense that I think they're all different degrees of interesting? I wouldn't call Hatmehyt my favourite goddess, but I definitely like her as a concept. "Foremost of the Fish" is just cool.

That said, I do have ones I like to talk about more than others, here's my discord name as a hint:

It's Nephthys

[ofspeckledplumage]

Hi, Hatmehyt.

Last night I dreamt of a necklace made of tightly woven silver plates, reminiscent of the scales of a fish. In the middle was a stylized fish icon like you might see in AE art made also of silver. It felt like I was supposed to offer it to the goddess.

[washedinpurewater]

O Hatmehyt, Foremost of Fishes

Lady of Sweet Perfumes

Goddess of the Great Flood:

As Valkyrie passes into the West, be there to greet her. Protect her until the day we meet again.

[wenuni]

All this Hatmehyt talk got me thinking of Nwt’s watery aspects

‘She who gives water to everyone who is thirsty’

‘The Libyan in the western desert of the sea of life’ <- edit: upon further research, this one is probably related more to the afterlife than actual water

‘She who is amid pure water (Gebel El Sisila)’

‘The Mother of water’

And one of Her depictions is as a goddess with a fish on Her head

[starsandepithets]

The worship of Hatmehyt was centered in the area around Djedet, a city in the Delta. It was the capital of the sixteenth Nome of Lower Egypt, known to the Greeks as Mendes. Hatmehyt was associated to the ram god Banebdjedet, whom she formed a divine couple. Hatmehyt was depicted as a woman with a fish emblem over her head or sometimes as a fish. The specific fish with which Hatmehyt identified is either the Nile carp ''the tilapia'', or the dolphin.

p.284 Shaikh al Arab, W., & E. Y Ali. (2013) Goddess Hatmehyt in Dendara Temple. ‘Journal of Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University’. Vol 7, No., 2. Date Accessed 02-06-2017 journals.fayoum.edu.eg/index.php/Tourism/article/download/86/92

[phynxrizng]

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[rudjedet]

Im writing a fictitious account about a 17th century buccaneer. In my more fantasy settings, i maintain that his ship's patron is Nyphtis, who has become a sort of ocean going grim reaper since the fall of Egypt and Atlantis. Can you please advise me on her lore duties etc? and her preisthoods and any aquatic associations he sort of becomes one of her 2 high priesrs? I have my own fictitious Atlantian Lore, but i want to stay as true as possible and draw heavily on Ancient Egypt. Any liturarure you can recommend is great. I also have a copy of the Egytian book of the dead for research

I have answered a few asks on this before, they're not in the FAQ yet but if you search my blog for "Nephthys" (that exact spelling - spelling doesn't quite matter but that's the one I use, otherwise you won't find the info) you'll get the most recent ask that links the other ones I've tackled!

That said, I think Nephthys' associations with water are so slim that you might be better off taking a different ship's patron. Suggestions are either Hapi or Ammit. Ammit is a somewhat left-of-field suggestion, but I think she'd work really great for a buccaneer not just because she's 1/3rd crocodile and 1/3rd hippo and thus terrifying + in that way connected to water, but also because, well, it's Ammit. Another potentially fun one would be the local goddess Hatmehyt, “foremost of the fish”.

Obligatory word of caution: be very careful how you apply Atlantis/Egypt in your story. Atlantis is one of the things that often comes up in conspiracy-thinking related to ancient Egypt, and you don't want to accidentally perpetuate that kind of thinking in a narrative.

As for extra reading material, I’d recommend getting The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt for your base info, and then scour the bibliography for papers/works on the deity you decide to go for.