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Mafdet
And here's a catch-all for Mafdet. :) To start off with:- Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1973-80.Pyramid Texts, Utterance 295: "Mafdet leaps at the neck of the in-di.f-snake, she does it again at the neck of the serpent with raised head. Who is he who will survive? It is I who will survive ( Read more... )
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Mut
I'm still gradually adding notes to my catch-all posting on Sekhmet; here's one for the closely related goddess Mut. (Also see the goddess: ithyphallic mut tag.)
- Capel, Anne K. and Glenn E. Markoe (eds). Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt. New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with Cincinnati Art Museum, 1996. ( Read more... )
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Sekhmet
Well! Now it's time to do the same thing for Sekhmet. I'll go through my photocopies and downloads, make notes from them, and update this posting as I go; eventually I'll turn it all into a brief summary.
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Bastet
In March last year I began a long-term project of taking notes from all the photocopies and downloads I'd gathered on the goddess Bast or Bastet. I think I've finally finished. :)
Here, as threatened, is my brief (and very much not comprehensive!) summary:
Bastet's name becomes common in the Second and Third Dynasties, but isn't attested before ( Read more... )