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Egyptian Goddess
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‘Embracing Lady’
The water goddess of Elephantine.
The Egyptian goddess of the Nile and nourisher of the fields.
Portrayed with a crown made of reed and topped with ostrich feathers.
Her name means ‘to embrace‘ which was interpreted to mean that her ‘embrace’ during the annual Nile floods fertilised the fields.
Her worship was common throughout Nubia and the centre of this worship was the island of ‘Sahal’ near Aswan. There she was called the ‘Lady of Sahal’.
The gazelle is her sacred animal.
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