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Raet was also considered a wife of Montu, and she formed a triad with him and Harpocrates in Medamud. Her feast day was in the fourth month of the reaping season. The centers of her cult were at Medamud, El-Tod, and Thebes. A demotic manual from the Roman period with hymns to Raet has survived in fragments.
Montu. Montu (Mentu, Monthu, Mentju, Montju, Menthu, Ment, Month, Mont, Minuthi) was a solar hawk god and a god of war. His name is thought to derive from the term for a nomad. He was primarily worshipped in the Theban nome in Armant (Hermonthis), Madu, Tod (Tuphium), and Karnak. It seems that Montu was originally a local form of the sun god ...
Feb 26, 2015 · Rattawy: Female Sun of Two Lands. Rattawy, or Raet, is the feminine form of the name Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. Strangely, she has nothing to do with the sun-god’s cult, but seems to have led an independent existence from the 19th Dynasty onward. While some see her as simply “Mrs. Ra”, the only records we have of her tell a very different ...
Raet (rˁỉ.t) or Raet-Tawy (rˁỉ.t-t3.wỉ) is an ancient Egyptian solar goddess, the female aspect of Ra. Her name is simply the female form of Ra's name; the longer name Raet-Tawy means "Raet of the Two Lands" (Upper and Lower Egypt). First referred to during the reign of the Fifth Dynasty, Raet is likely to have been a companion of Ra from the start, and did not have a separate origin ...
Hermonthis, Thebes, Medamud, El-Tod. Consort. Raet-Tawy, Tjenenyet, Iunit, or Satet. Montu was a falcon -god of war in the ancient Egyptian religion, an embodiment of the conquering vitality of the pharaoh. [1] He was particularly worshipped in Upper Egypt and in the district of Thebes. [2]
Jun 4, 2024 · Montu was a god of war. In addition to falcons, a bull was his sacred animal; from the 30th dynasty (380–343 bce ), this bull, the Buchis bull, received an elaborate cult. Montu was represented as a man with a falcon’s head, wearing a crown of two plumes with a double uraeus (rearing cobra) on his forehead. He had important temple complexes ...
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May 10, 2017 · Several iconographic depictions of Montu from the New Kingdom show Him once again in fully human form, though the majority have Him (as well as the syncretized Montu-Ra) in the more familiar hawk-headed form. During the Amarna Period Montu, like the other Theban divinities, had His name and likeness defaced and removed from monuments and temples.
