Menhit

Menhit is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. She was a goddess of battle, but was also considered a crown Goddess.

Representation

Menhit is represented as a lion-headed woman. Rare pictures but they also show just as a woman with sun disk and uraeus on his head.

Cult and cult places

A main cult of Menhit was Esna, the Greek Latopolis, where they formed a triad with Khnum and her son Heka -pa - chered. Another main cult Sais is known.

Importance

Her performance as a woman with lion's head brought Menhit in close connection with the goddesses Sekhmet, Bastet and Renenutet. Through the convergence of Khnum at schools Menhit moved but also the place of the goddess Tefnut. In this form it belonged to the local myth of the sun eye. In this context, the fire-spitting uraeus is then temporarily addressed as Menhit. So it is possible that Menhit initially was just a name of the uraeus itself and the relationship with the goddess Menhit was only produced in Leuven shape gradually.

Your name, which can be translated as the ' Culler, "she called goddess of battle. Pictures of battles Seti I show, for example, the king with the epithet " beloved of Menhit ". In its wider sense as a crown Goddess Menhit was less known to the people.