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Taweret, Goddess Demoness of Birth,
Rebirth and the Northern Sky
Taweret The Great Female - was the ancient Egyptian goddess of maternity and childbirth, protector of women and children.
Like Bes, she was both a fierce demonic fighter as well as a popular deity who guarded the mother and her newborn child.
She was depicted as a combination of a crocodile, a pregnant hippopotamus standing on her hind legs with large breasts and a lion.
Unlike the composite demoness
Ammut
, her head and body were that of the hippo, her paws were that of the lion, and her back was the back of a crocodile.
All of these animals were man killers, and as such she was a demoness.
All three animals were regarded as fierce creatures who would kill to protect their young.
It was in her role of a protector that she was seen as a goddess.
As the mother hippo is protective of her young, Taweret was believed to be protective of Egyptian children.
She was often shown holding the sa hieroglyph of protection or the ankh hieroglyph of life.
She was thought to assist women in labour and scare off demons that might harm the mother or child.
Because hippos are denizens of the fertile Nile mud, Egyptians also saw them as symbols of rebirth and rejuvenation.
The birth-related aspect of the hippo's powers also appears in the complicated shape of the goddess Taweret, who protects women in childbirth.
She was also a goddess relating to fertility.
She was goddess of harvests as well as a goddess who helped with pregnancy.
In this capacity, she was linked with the goddess Hathor.
Amulets of Taweret were popular, used by the expectant mother because of Taweret's protective powers.
Taweret was a household deity, rather than a specific deity of the pharaoh, and she enjoyed huge popularity with the every day Egyptian.
She wore a low, cylindrical headdress surmounted by two plumes or sometimes she wore the horns and solar disk of Hathor.
Although her popularity was strongest in later periods, she first appeared in the Old Kingdom as the mother of the pharaoh, offering to suckle him with her divine milk.
In later times, the pharaoh Hatshepsut depicted the goddess attending to her birth along side other deities of childbirth.
In Egyptian astronomy, Taweret was linked to the northern sky. In this role she was known as Nebetakhet, the Mistress of the Horizon - the ceiling painting of the constellations in the tomb of Seti I showed her in this capacity. She was thought to keep the northern sky - a place of darkness, cold, mist, and rain to the Egyptians - free of evil. She was shown to represent the never-setting circumpolar stars of Ursa Minor and Draco. The seven stars lined down her back are the stars of the Little Dipper. She was believed to be a guardian of the north, stopping all who were unworthy before they could pass her by.
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