Shai
Shai was an Egyptian deity known as the god of fate, similar to the Greek Agathos Daimon. His worship dates back as far as the time of Akhenaten in the New Kingdom of Egypt.
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When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 300
- Historical notes
- Worship dates back to the time of Akhenaten in the New Kingdom of Egypt.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Knephis, Soknopis, Apis, Min, Four sons of Horus, Wadjet, Nehebkau, Nepri, Tyche Agathe, Eirene, Khnum, Ra, Osiris, Bastet, Set, Horus, Hathor, Amun, Nut, Meretseger, Sobek, Geb
- syncretized with
- Agathos Daimon, Agathodaemon, Serapis
- serves
- Isis
- manifests as
- Shait, serpent-headed pig
- manifested by
- Shait
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“In Egypt, a similar deity was Shai, who was known as the god of fate. His worship went back as far as the time of Akhenaten in the New Kingdom.”
#9055 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Thus later she was sometimes said to be paired with Shai, who became a god of destiny after the deity evolved out of an abstract concept.”
#23445 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Isis had the power to predict or influence future events, as did other deities who presided over birth, such as Shai...she has control over Shai and Renenutet”
#23479 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“She was the female counterpart of Shai, "destiny", who represented the positive destiny of the child. Renenutet was called Thermouthis or Hermouthis in Greek.”
#23634 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Shai (also spelt Sai, occasionally Shay, and in Greek, Psais) was the deification of the concept of fate in Egyptian mythology. As a concept, with no particular reason for associating one gender over another, Shai was sometimes considered female, rather than the more usual understanding of being male”
#24537 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001