Who is your favorite Egyptian Goddess? (heaven, verse, divine)

[Bishka]

#1 : Isis







#2 : Tefnut







#3 : Bastet







# 4 : Other (post a picture and describe)

[Gentoo]

Ma'at, I think...

I believe she's the one that the evil souls are fed to if their hearts weigh more than the feather.

[Kay]

Meow

[ChrisP]

Hathor - She is the go to girl for Justice, Music, drunkenness, Love and all the other important stuff

linky to a full list

[Feathers in Hair]

Ma'at (natural for anyone who likes feathers!), Tefnut (I've always heard her referred to as Sekhmet, but there are many spellings, I know!), and Bast/et!

[anders]

My favourite is Bast(et). Even before joining this forum.

[Makhsihed]

I think Hethert (Hathor) would be my favorite, if I had to pick. (ChrisP already posted a picture.) Eye of Ra, Beautiful in All Her Names, Divine Mother, Lady of Drunkenness and Heaven and the Limit of the Universe, Mistress of All, Mistress of Fertility and Intoxication and Joy and Judgments and Life and Love, Primordial One, Sovereign of Women, Mistress of the Birth House and Dance and Music... Those are capitalized because they're all Hethert's titles. There's a lot more, but those are some of the most telling, I think.

She's a funerary goddess as Lady of the West. Music and dance are her glory as Mistress of Music and Mistress of Dance. She's the vengeance of her father as the Eye of Ra, as Sekhmet - she is not just sweetness and mothering warmth.

She is depicted as a beautiful woman, as a cow, as a lioness (Sekhmet) or hippopotamus or sycamore tree, and as a falcon and a cobra. She is also the Seven Hetherts of a child's fate, of protection against evil spirits, and of love.

For more information, go to hethert.org.

[Makhsihed]

Oh, and one thing that always makes me wince a bit - it's Bast, not Bastet. The extra "t" (transliterated as "-et"; the hieroglyph is usually called the "bread loaf") was added during the New Kingdom to emphasize that it should be pronounced "Bast", not "Bas", because in spoken words, the -t at the end of words was being dropped due to accents/foreign influences.

Since most English speakers don't have a problem keeping the -t on the end of words, the extra -et is not needed and only causes confusion. It was never intended that the writing "Bastet" be pronounced "Bastet"; it was only intended that the "t" not be forgotten.

(Source: per-bast.org. Highly recommended for Bast-lovers.)

[Circle_One]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

Ma'at, I think...

I believe she's the one that the evil souls are fed to if their hearts weigh more than the feather.

Ma'at is the Goddess who weighs the hearts of the dead on her scale against one of her ostrich feathers.

Ammut is the Goddess who is fed the souls of those who's hearts are heavier than the feather.

As for my Goddess, that would be Isis, my patron Goddess.