Sopdet
Sopdet is the goddess representing the star Sirius. Her relationship with her husband Sah and their son Sopdu parallels Isis's relations with Osiris and Horus. Sirius's heliacal rising, just before the start of the Nile flood, gave Sopdet a close connection with the flood and the resulting growth of plants.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 300
- Historical notes
- Attested from the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (c. 3000 BCE) through the Roman period.
Relationships
- parent of
- Sopdu, Horus-Sopdu
- consort of
- Sah, Osiris-Sah
- co occurs with
- Sah, Isis-Sopdet, Ra, Osiris, Bastet, Horus, Hera, Khnum, Juno, Anuket, Nut, Khensit, Artemis (Diana), Satis, Serapis, Harpocrates
- allied with
- Hathor
Mentioned by
- Anubis
- Sothis
- Ra
- Osiris
- Bastet
- Horus
- Hera
- Khnum
- Juno
- Anuket
- Nut
- Khensit
- Artemis (Diana)
- Satis
- Serapis
- Harpocrates
and 1 more
Sources
Source passages
“Sopdet, the goddess representing the star Sirius, whose relationship with her husband Sah—the constellation Orion—and their son Sopdu parallels Isis's relations with Osiris and Horus.”
#23494 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“She was sometimes conflated with Isis and Sopdet, goddess of the bright star Sirius, which the Egyptians connected with the onset of the Nile flooding.”
#23657 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“From the Middle Kingdom, Sopdet sometimes appeared as a god who held up part of Nut (the sky or firmament) with Hathor. In Greco-Roman Egypt, the male Sopdet was conflated with the dog-headed Anubis.”
#23695 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“His consort was Sopdet known by the ancient Greek name as Sothis, the goddess of the star Sirius.”
#24474 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“As a sky god, Sopdu was connected with the god Sah, the personification of the constellation Orion, and the goddess Sopdet, representing the star Sirius.”
#24663 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001