#hatmehyt

[only-fragments]

My house has unexpectedly become a hospice for sick betta fish the local Petco can't sell, so I set up a small altar to Hatmehyt near their tanks. I'll get Her something nicer as soon as I can, but in the meantime I hope She appreciates the gesture and will take care of our little friends.

[antlering]

Found this in a report and thought it was neat! A pectoral to be worn by someone pregnant, featuring Hatmehyt, Taweret, and a pregnant worshiper. Hatmehyt is here in her role as the mother of Heru, and Taweret has an especially elaborate Hathor-crown that I like a lot.

Source: The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt. Emily Teeter and Janet H Johnson, Ed. University of Chicago Press, 2009. (click to download for free!)

[laylawolfwind]

Gonna do a portrait of Hatmehyt for my next deity piece, as requested. Now I have never worked with her, and I’m not finding much on her online. I have a good idea of what I want her to look like, but what is she like personality wise? Is she caring? Motherly? Fierce?

@starsandepithets and @biologydyke you both suggested her, do you have any good info for me before I go too far into these thumbnails?

[seba--djai]

I'm so over nightmares. I long for the dreams of springs of endless fish pouring from my house that I once had.

[starsandepithets]

Adoration of Hatmehyt

O, Hatmehyt, Sovereign of the town of Djedet,

Protector of your Brother, Mighty Banebdjedet,

Over the Dolphin Nome you are noble Mistress,

I sing praises to you, O, Foremost of the Fishes.

[03/06/17]

[starsandepithets]

The worship of Hatmehyt was centered in the area around Djedet, a city in the Delta. It was the capital of the sixteenth Nome of Lower Egypt, known to the Greeks as Mendes. Hatmehyt was associated to the ram god Banebdjedet, whom she formed a divine couple. Hatmehyt was depicted as a woman with a fish emblem over her head or sometimes as a fish. The specific fish with which Hatmehyt identified is either the Nile carp ''the tilapia'', or the dolphin.

p.284 Shaikh al Arab, W., & E. Y Ali. (2013) Goddess Hatmehyt in Dendara Temple. ‘Journal of Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University’. Vol 7, No., 2. Date Accessed 02-06-2017 journals.fayoum.edu.eg/index.php/Tourism/article/download/86/92

[sekhenetnut]

[sehetep-shenwer]

Dua Hatmehyt!