#iusaaset

[exhalereleased]

from a draft of "Iusaaset Under the Acacia Tree" by acacia selene

[valkyries-things]

IUSAASET // EGYPTIAN GODDESS OF CREATION

“She is a primordial goddess in Ancient Egyptian religion, a feminine counterpart to the male creator deity Atum. Iusaaset was depicted as a woman with a scarab beetle on her head. She was worshipped in the city of I͗wnw or Iunu, Greek Heliopolis, as was Atum. Iusaaset was associated with the acacia tree and acacias stood at the sanctuary dedicated to Iusaaset at Heliopolis.”

[thewinedarksea]

mythology meme: primordial deities (4/5) — iusaaset

iusaset ("the great one who comes forth") is the name of a primal goddess in ancient egyptian religion. she also is described as "the grandmother of all of the deities." this allusion is without any reference to a grandfather, so there might have been a very early, but now lost, myth with parthenogenesisas, the means of the birth of the deities from the region where her cult arose near the delta of the nile. 

[seba--djai]

From yesterday/ last night. "Feast of the back of Sothis" and the final day of "the feast of Hethert-Iusaaset."

[chthonicdivinebard]

In the neighborhood of Heliopolis there was a shrine for the female counterpart of the Sun-God Atum. She was Saosis who was a personification of the God's hand. In this place Atum's children, Shu and Tefnut, were born, and here the sacred acacia was worshiped. An execration text from the late period contains the following passage in connection with the God Seth: "He has approached the wonderful hall of Saosis with the acacia tree in which life and death are contained."

“The Goddesses of the Egyptian Tree Cult” by Marie-Louise Buhl in Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 6) (p 86)

[dwellerinthelibrary]

North wall of the sanctuary at Hibis temple, Register VI. Right to left: Sokar, as a scarab-bodied mummy; “the great god of the primal times”; Maat, as a mummy with a feather for a head; Atum-Re, carrying Geb and Nut; and a damaged figure labelled "Iuaaset, mistress of On.".

[trykynyx]

iusaaset ;; egyptian mythology series

she has all but faded from memory, she who was the solitary beginning of the deities of egypt. at the dawn of the world she birthed the first gods alone, as self-sufficient in life-giving as the sun and the acacia tree. her heirs are her legacy, as she now has no remembered story.  

[legendarylobster]

Iusaaset

Grandmother of the gods. There is no grandfather.