#raettawy

[kienansidhe]

beautiful commissioned art by @horreurscopes for my best friend who is not on tumblr anymore lol, please go give horreurscopes a follow and commission them if you can!

[dwellerinthelibrary]

That’s Netjery, priestess of Montu, at left; at right is one of Montu’s consorts, either Tjenenet or Raet-Tawy. The stela dates to the Ramesside era and comes from Armant (Hermonthis); nowadays it lives in the Petrie Museum.

[elsendor]

lineart of @pr4villains sylvari, raettawy. she/her pronouns.

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Good heavens -- I think I’ve stumbled across an error in that invaluable source of all knowledge and wisdom, the Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen. It’s a massive, multi-volume tome which lists gods with details of when and how they appear. At the mo I’m following up attestations of Hepet-Hor under the name Ḥptt (“She Who Embraces”), and the LGG lists this: “Mammisi Armant: Rosellini, Monumenti del Culto, 52, 1.” That’s what you see above -- but the lioness-headed goddess is, surprisingly, Satet aka Satis, not Hepet-Hor. She’s standing behind Hathor and Raet-Tawy (seated).

(It is of course much more likely that I’ve made a mistake than the editors of the LGG...)

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Khonsu and Raettawy in Khonsu’s temple at Karnak.

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Montu and Raettawy in Khonsu’s temple at Karnak. I remember being amazed both that there was a female Ra, and that she was a mere consort, not the female counterpart of the solar creator god. Must find out more about her.

[elsendor]

nymphaea caerulea

[rediankhesi]

she is fire / she is light.