Bat
The Bat is an animal spirit that, like the owl and panther, stayed awake for seven nights during the Cherokee medicine ceremony. It was granted night vision, enabling it to hunt after dark. The bat is associated with nocturnal vision and the protective aspect of night.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Worshiped in the early dynastic period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Cedar, Pine, Spruce, Holly, Laurel, Oak, The Wild Boy, seraph, satyr, Pegasus, Aralez, Cernunnos, Fairy, Horned God, Jackalope, Silenos, Ra, Mehet-Weret, Nut, Isis, Set, Bast, Serapis, Osiris, Ptah, Apis, Mnevis, Osorapis, Buchis, Menhit, Bastet, Pakhet, Sekhmet, Tefnut, Heqet, Hathor, Wadjet, Mut, Nekhbet, Nephthys, Neith, Amunet, Satis, Anput, Hesat, Serket, Renenutet, Anuket, Imentet, Wosret, Gaia, Zeus, Dyaus, Prithvi, Hera, Minotaur, Horus, Ma'at, Buzzard, Owl, Panther, angels
- sibling of
- Hathor
- syncretized with
- Hathor
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Only the owl, panther, bat, and unnamed others were able to fulfill the requirements of the ceremony, so these animals were given the gift of night vision, which allowed them to hunt easily at night.”
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“Bat – An Egyptian goddess with the horns and ears of a cow.”
#4798 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The Egyptologist Henry George Fischer suggested this deity may be Bat, a goddess who was later depicted with a woman's face and inward-curling horns, seemingly reflecting the curve of the cow horns. The Egyptologist Lana Troy, however, identifies a passage in the Pyramid Texts from the late Old Kingdom”
#14345 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Perhaps originating in the worship of the goddess Bat, it was used in dances and religious ceremonies, particularly in the worship of the goddess Hathor, with the U-shape of the sistrum's handle and frame seen as resembling the face and horns of the cow goddess.”
#18071 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The imagery of Bat as a divine cow was remarkably similar to that of Hathor, a parallel goddess from another nome. In two dimensional images, both goddesses often are depicted straight on, facing the onlooker and not in profile in accordance with the characteristic Egyptian convention”
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