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Shai

Shai (also spelt Sai, occasionally Shay, and in Greek, Psais) was the deification of the concept

Concept

A concept is a cognition unit of meaning— an abstraction idea or a mental symbol sometimes defined as a "unit of knowledge," built from other units which act as a concept's characteristics....
of fate

Destiny

Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a Predeterminism future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the universe....
in Egyptian mythology. As a concept, with no particular reason for associating with one gender over another, Shai was sometimes considered female, rather than the more usual understanding of being male, in which circumstance Shai was referred to as Shait (simply the feminine form of the name).

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Shai (also spelt Sai, occasionally Shay, and in Greek, Psais) was the deification of the concept

Concept

Destiny

Duat

In Egyptian mythology, Duat is the underworld.This was the region through which the sun god Ra traveled from west to east during the night, and where he battled Apep....
. In consequence, he was sometimes identified as the husband of Mesenet

Mesenet

In Ancient Egyptian mythology, Meskhenet, was the goddess of childbirth, and the creator of each child's Egyptian soul, a part of their soul, which she breathed into them at the moment of birth....
, goddess of birth, or, in later years, of Renenutet

Renenutet

In Egyptian mythology, Renenutet was the anthropomorphism deification of the act of gaining a true name, an Egyptian soul, during birth. Her name simply meaning, gives Ren, with Ren being the Egyptian word for this true name....
, who assigned the Ren

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 ....
, and had become considered goddess of fortune. Because of the power associated in the concept, Akhenaten

Akhenaten

Akhenaten , was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, who died 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is especially noted for attempting to compel the Egyptian population in the monotheism worship of Aten, although there are doubts as to how successful he was at this....
, in introducing monotheism

Monotheism

In theology, monotheism is the belief that only one god exists. The concept of "monotheism" tends to be dominated by the concept of God in the Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the Neoplatonism concept of God as put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite....
, said that Shai was an attribute of Aten

Aten

Aten was the disk of the sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of Ra. He became the deity of the monotheism ? in fact, monism ? religion Atenism of Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaten....
, whereas Ramses II claimed to be lord of Shai (i.e. lord of fate).

During Ptolemaic Egypt

Ptolemaic Egypt

Ptolemaic Egypt began when Ptolemy I Soter declared himself Pharaoh of Egypt in 305 BC and ended with the death of queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and the Aegyptus in 30 BC....
, Shai, as god of fate, was identified with the Greek god

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
Agathodaemon

Agathodaemon

In ancient Greek religion, Agathos Daimon or Agathodaemon was a daimon or presiding spirit of the vineyards and cerealfields and a personal companion spirit, similar to the Roman Genius , ensuring good luck, health and wisdom....
, who was the god of fortune telling. Thus, since Agathodaemon was considered to be a serpent

Serpent (symbolism)

Serpent is a word of Latin origin that is commonly used in a specifically mythology or religion context, signifying a snake that is to be regarded not as a mundane natural phenomenon nor as an object of scientific zoology, but as the bearer of some symbolic value....
, and the word Shai was also the Egyptian word

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....
for pig
Pig

Pigs, also called hogs or swine, are a genus of even-toed ungulates within the Family Suidae. The name pig, hog, or swine most commonly refers to the Domestic pig in everyday parlance, but technically encompasses several distinct species, including the Wild Boar....
, in the Hellenic period, Shai was sometimes depicted as a serpent-headed pig, known to Egyptologists as the Shai animal. The concept of Shai' Gar is where an adversarial deity promotes the changing of your own fate.

As given name

Shai, pronounced "Shy" or "Shah", is also a boy's name meaning gift in Persian and Hebrew; it is a commonly used in Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
for boys and less common, but not unheard of, for girls. Shai is also a very popular Persian

Persian language

Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
name, popular among Muslim communities in India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
and Bangladesh

Bangladesh

, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south....
, and also enjoys some popularity in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
. A variant of the name is Shia (meaning "Gift of God"), the first name of actor Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor and comedian.After growing up in California, LaBeouf became known with a starring role in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens....
.