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Egyptian Gods, their main centers of worship |
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Taweret, Tefnut, ThothPlease note - Festival days are not historically Taweret/Taurt
correct but an estimation compiled from several sources.
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Hippopotamus goddess, protector of women during childbirth, since Archaic times shown standing upright with human arms and legs, a wig of straight hair and a crocodile's back and tail. She carried a torch, a sa (a sign of magical protection) attribute, and often an ankh in her hands. Her image was often attached to beds, head-rests and cosmetic articles, but she is also depicted in the Book of Going Forth By Day and in temple reliefs. |
Main center of worship: None historically known |
Tefnut/Tefnet
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Tefnut, meaning moisture like rain, dew and clouds, was according to
myth created by the primeval god Atum of the Ennead in Heliopolis together
with her brother Shu, air. With them duality started and the sexual cycle
was begun. When Atum later was assimilated by Re, they were considered
children of Re, the sungod. In the beginning Tefnut was regarded as the lunar
eye, but in myth she developed into the solar eye and later the uraeus.
She then aquired the name "lady of flame" and "the uraeus
on the heads of all the gods". In Buto she and Shu were worshipped as the flamingo-like "children of the Lower Egyptian king", a mythical image for the sun and the moon. In Leontopolis they were identified with the lion worship there. She can be depicted both as a lioness and as a woman with a lion´s head like Sekhmet whose ears are rounded while Tefnut´s are pointed. |
Main center of worship: Mainly connected to the Ennead at Iunu/Heliopolis/Cairo, 13th N, Lower Egypt. Nay-ta-hut/Leontopolis/Tell el-Muqdam, Festivals: (exact dates not historically verified) 30th August - 13th Paopi - Day of Satisfying the Hearts of
the Ennead 29th October - 13th Koiak - Day of Going Forth of Het-Hert
and the Ennead 15th November - 30th Koiak - The Ennead feast in the House of
Ra, Heru and Wasir |
Thoth/Djehuty
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Thoth, (Djehuty), the god who is said to have invented writing, the measuring of
time, music, magic, art, medicine, mathematics and astronomy. In early
times shown as an ibis, the sign of the 15th Lower Egyptian nome, so he
might have originated there. His main cult center was later Hermopolis in
Middle Egypt, where he assumed the shape of a baboon. He took over the
role of the eight creator gods of Hermopolis and became a creator god
himself. He was considered the lord of the moon and in the late period he was called the "silver Aten". Another name was "lord of time" and "reckoner of years", his attributes being a writing palette or a palm leaf. He was the protector of scribes and was sometimes considered the tongue or heart of Re. He was also the protector of Osiris and as such he became the helper of the dead. |
Main center of worship: Khmun/Hermopolis/el-Ashmunein, 15th Nome, Upper Egypt Other sites: Nekheb/Eileityiaspolis/Elkab, 2nd Nome, Upper Egypt Hermopolis Parva/Damanhur, 3rd Nome, Lower Egypt Naukratis, 7th Nome, Lower Egypt Bakh/Hermopolis/el-Baqlia, 15th Nome, Lower Egypt Festivals: (exact dates not historically verified) 19th July - 1st Thuti - Feast of Thoth 6th August - 19th Thuti - Chief Festival of Thoth 20th August - 3rd Paopi - Tehuti(Thoth) orders the healing of
the eye of Heru (Horus) 23rd October - 7th Koiak - Ceremony of Djehuty (Thoth) 13th December - 28th Tybi - Day of Tehuti's taking the oath 14th December - 29th Tybi - Tehuti (Thoth) sends Bast and
Sekhmet to guide Egypt 24th January - 10th Pamenot - Day of Coming of Tehuti (Thoth) 3rd April - 19th Pachons - Day of the Counting of Tehuti(Thoth) Who heard Ma´at 14th May - 30 Payni - Tehuti (Thoth) appears with Shu to bring back Tefnut |
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