Everything about Meskhenet totally explained
In Ancient
Egyptian mythology,
Meskhenet, (also spelt
Mesenet,
Meskhent, and
Meshkent) was the
goddess of
childbirth, and the creator of each child's
Ka, a part of their
soul, which she breathed into them at the moment of birth. She was worshipped from the earliest of times by Egyptians.
In
ancient Egypt, women delivered babies while squatting on a pair of
bricks, known as
birth bricks, and Meskhenet was the goddess associated with this form of delivery. Consequently, in
art, she sometimes was depicted as a brick with a woman's head, wearing a cow's
uterus upon it. At other times she was depicted as a woman with a symbolic cow's uterus on her headdress.
Since she was responsible for creating the Ka, she was associated with
fate. Thus later she sometimes was said to be paired with
Shai, who became a god of destiny after the deity evolved out of an abstract concept.
It was said that Meskhenet was present at the birth of triplets, and foretold in their fates, that they'd each be pharaohs - the triplets in question were
Sahure,
Userkaf, and
Neferirkare Kakai, who were the first pharaohs in the
fifth dynasty (although Userkaf wasn't the sibling of the other two, but their father).
Meskhenet also was believed to be the earliest wife of
Andjety the god of rebirth in the underworld. Andjety appears to have been worshipped since pre-dynastic times at Andjet, and is thought by most Egyptologists to be the god who eventually became
Osiris.
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