Mehet-Weret
Mehet-Weret is a celestial cow from Egyptian mythology.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Early Dynastic Period to Roman Egypt.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Nut, Wadjet, Mut, Nekhbet, Satet, Mestjet, Renenutet, Weret-hekau, Anuket, Sothis, Ma'at, Atum, Nun, Apis, Hesat, Neith, Werethekau, Nebetu'u, Khensit, Mafdet, Meskhenet, Iunit, Raet-tawy, Beset, Anat, Kebechet, Nebethetepet, Iusaaset, Qed-her, Nehmetawy, Abaset, Khereduankh, Baalat Gebal, Hatmehit, Henet, Pelican, Iabet, Iat, Meret, Nehbet-anet, Ay, Nebtuwi, Ahmose-Nefertari, Ahti, Amathaunta, Amn, Anet, Anhefta, Anit, Anuke, Aperet-Isis, Bairthy, Besna, Esna, Hedetet, Heptet, Heret-Kau, Hert-ketit-s, Hert-Nemmat-Set, Hert-sefu-s, Heru-pa-kaut, Heset, Hetepes-Sekhus, Iaret, Ipy, Iw, Ken, Khefthernebes, Matit, Nakith, Perit, Pesi, Qerhet, Rekhit, Mithra, El, Bull of Heaven, Gavaevodata, Heiðrún, Kamadhenu, Bat, Horus, Menhit, Bastet, Sekhmet, Tefnut, Osiris, Khnum, Astarte, Meretseger, Amesemi, Mehit, Qetesh, Ammit, Ištar
- manifests as
- cow
- allied with
- Hathor
Mentioned by
- Mithra
- El
- Bull of Heaven
- Gavaevodata
- Heiðrún
- Kamadhenu
- Bat
- Horus
- Menhit
- Bastet
- Sekhmet
- Tefnut
- Osiris
- Khnum
- Astarte
- Meretseger
and 5 more
Sources
Source passages
“Mehet-Weret, celestial cow from Egyptian mythology”
#5786 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Hathor and Mehet-Weret were both thought of as the cow who birthed the sun god and placed him between her horns. Like Nut, Hathor was said to give birth to the sun god each dawn.”
#14351 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Weret-hekau, and Meretseger, the divine protector of the burial grounds near the city of Thebes. The deities associated with the eye were not restricted to feline and serpent forms. Hathor's usual animal form is a cow, as is that of the closely linked eye goddess Mehet-Weret.”
#15879 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In some versions of this myth, at the beginning of time Mehet-Weret, portrayed as a cow with a sun disk between her horns, gives birth to the sun, said to have risen from the waters of creation and to have given birth to the sun god Ra in some myths.”
#17001 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the godess Mehet-Weret. The goddess Mehet-Weret was featured in a number of spells in the Book of the Dead, including spell 17. In this spell she was credited for the birth of Ra, who is the Sun god; she is also the one who protects Ra, because it was believed by the ancient people of Egypt that the sun died”
#23441 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001