Hesat

deity earth Egyptian single tradition · 5

Hesat is a cow goddess. In the Coffin Texts, Anubis is described as the son of Hesat.

↻ synthesized from 5 sources

When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in Coffin Texts from the First Intermediate Period.

Relationships

syncretized with
Isis
aspect of
Hathor
parent of
Anubis
manifested by
Hathor

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Sources

Source passages

“In the Coffin Texts, which were written in the First Intermediate Period (c. 2181–2055 BC), Anubis is the son of either the cow goddess Hesat or the cat-headed Bastet.”

#14186 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The hieroglyphs on this late period piece read ḥȜst or ḥsȜt determined with a recumbent cow...This spelling of her name is using cryptographic substitution, which became established in the New Kingdom.”

#23398 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Hesat”

#23943 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Another burial ground was reserved for the so-called Mothers of Mnevis, which were considered the embodiment of the cow-goddess Hesat.”

#24377 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Hesat – A maternal cow goddess”

#24776 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5