#tayet

[hearthfirehandworks]

Tayet (Tayt) is an Egyptian goddess of weaving and cloth, including the fine linen worn by the statues of gods in their temples and the linen that wrapped mummies in their tombs. She is depicted here holding out a length of linen.

Tayet who spins the golden flax, pure one who weaves the garment and the shroud, I praise and honor you.

[sekhenetnut]

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Sarcophagus of Nectanebo II. by Lenka P, who writes: “British Museum EA 10. Green brecia. 30th dynasty, about 345 BC. From Alexandria. This sarcophagus was never used by Nectanebo II, last native ruler of Egypt. He fled to Nubia following the Persian invasion in 343 BC. It was later used as a ritual bath in the mosque in the former church of St Athanasius. It is inscribed with extracts from the Book of Imiduat.”

This scene is from the Sixth Hour of the Amduat. The lion is called “the bull of roaring voice”; as Erik Hornung and Theodor Abt explain in The Egyptian Amduat, both bull and lion are symbols of royalty. To the left you can see part of a row of royal sceptres, some with crowns and some with uraei. The wedjat eyes above the lion are labelled “image of Re”, and the goddess sitting to the right is “Isis-Tait”.

[anubis-is-actually-sassy]

Sorry, but I love Tayet.