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Hatmehit

In Egyptian mythology

Egyptian mythology

Ancient Egyptian religion encompasses the various religious beliefs and rituals practiced in ancient Egypt over at least 3,000 years, from the Predynastic Egypt until the adoption of Coptic Christianity in the early centuries Common Era....
, Hatmehit, or Hatmehyt (reconstructed to have been pronounced * in Egyptian

Egyptian language

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
-goddess

Goddess

A goddess is a female deity. Often deities are part of a polytheism system that includes several deities in a pantheon .Common associations of goddesses are the Earth goddess, the Mother Goddess, Love goddess, and the hearth goddess, reflecting historical gender roles....
, originally a deification of the Nile

Nile

The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two....
River, by the people in the area around the delta city of Per-banebdjedet, Mendes

Mendes

Mendes , the Greek language name of the Ancient Egyptian city of Djedet, also known in Ancient Egypt as Per -Banebdjedet and Anpet, is known today as Tell El-Ruba ....
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Her name translates as House of Mehit, (Hat Mehit), implying she may have some connection to Hathor

Hathor

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In Egyptian mythology

Egyptian mythology

Egyptian language

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
-goddess

Goddess

Nile

Mendes

Hathor

In Egyptian mythology, Hathor was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk that flowed from the udders of a heavenly cow....
, one of the oldest deities of Egypt who also went by the name Mehit, meaning great flood. This may possibly be due to being seen as a remnant of the primal waters of creation from which all things arose. Other goddesses associated with the primal waters of creation are Mut

Mut

Mut, which meant mother in the ancient Egyptian language, was an ancient Egyptian mother goddess with multiple aspects that changed over the thousands of years of the culture....
and Naunet

Naunet

"Nu " redirects here. For other uses, see Nu.In Egyptian mythology, Nu is the deification of the primordial watery abyss. In the Ogdoad cosmogony, the name means abyss....
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In Ancient Egyptian art

Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
Hatmehit was depicted either as a fish, or a woman with a fish emblem or crown on her head, and was known as the Foremost of Fish or Chief of Fish. She was a goddess of life and protection.

When the cult of Osiris

Osiris

Osiris was an Egyptian mythology, usually called the god of the Afterlife.Osiris is one of the oldest gods for whom records have been found; one of the oldest known attestations of his name is on the Palermo Stone of around 2500 BC....
arose, the people of Mendes reacted by identifying Osiris as having achieved his authority by being the husband of Hatmehit. In particular, it was the Ba

Egyptian soul

The Ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. In addition to these components of the soul there was the human body ....
of Osiris, known as Banebjed (literally meaning Ba of the lord of the djed
Djed

The Djed symbol is a pillar-like ancient Egyptian symbol representing stability. It has been interpreted as the backbone of the Ancient Egypt god Osiris, especially in the form Banebdjedet ....
, referring to Osiris), which was said to have married Hatmehit.

When Horus

Horus

Horus is a god of the Ancient Egyptian religion, most commonly known by the Greek language version Horus, of the Egyptian language Heru/Har....
became considered the son of Osiris, a form known as Harpocrates (Har-pa-khered in Egyptian

Egyptian language

Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family along with the Chadic languages, Berber languages, Semitic languages, Cushitic languages and possibly Omotic languages languages....
), Hatmehit was consequently said to be his mother. As wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus, she eventually became identified as a form of Isis

ISIS

ISIS is an industry standard interface for technologies, developed by Pixel Translations in 1990 .ISIS is an open standard for scanner control and a complete image-processing framework....
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