Ancient Egyptian deities: Seed Goddess
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Seed GoddessThe Seed Goddess, ,[3] was the personification of the seed of the creator god. She was forbidden to anybody but the creator god himself and violating her would lead to a terrible death by poisoning.This did not prevent Seth from copulating with her after he had seen her bathing, some suggest that she seduced Seth.[1][2] He fell ill because of his sacrilegious act, possibly poisoned by the goddess herself–the word mtw.t, "seed", used can also mean "poison" [2]–and Anat intervened with Re, asking the creator god to save him. Re ordered Isis to remedy Seth with the help of her knowledge of magic. Bibliography: Zahi A. Hawass, Janet Richards (eds), The archaeology and art of ancient Egypt: essays in honor of David B. O'Connor, Volume 2, Conseil Suprême des Antiquités de l'Égypte, 2007 J. H. Hospers, Herman L. J. Vanstiphout, Scripta signa vocis: studies about scripts, scriptures, scribes, and languages in the Near East, presented to J.H. Hospers by his pupils, colleagues, and friends, John Benjamins Pub Co, 1986 Geraldine Pinch, Egyptian mythology: a guide to the gods, goddesses, and traditions of ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press US, 2004, p.102 Footnotes: [1] Hawass & Richards (eds) 2007, p.411 [2] Hospers & Vanstiphout 1986, p.40 [3] transliteration tA mtw.t, lit. "the Seed" (Hospers & Vanstiphout 1986, p.40) |
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