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and charms. Isis is the goddess of day, while her twin sister, Nephthys is the goddess
of night. Her sacred symbol is an amulet called the tyet. She is the wife of Osiris and
the mother of Horus.
Ma'at
Ma'at is the Egyptian goddess of Truth and Justice and the underworld. She passed
judgment over the souls of the dead in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. The "Law of Ma'at
was the basis of civil laws in ancient Egypt.
Mafdet
Mafdet, "The Lady of the Castle of Life", was an early (1st Dynasty) Egyptian goddess.
Her sacred animals were the cat and the mongoose. She was invoked to help cure
snakebites.
Meskhoni
Meskhoni is an Egyptian birth goddess symbolized by a human-headed brick.
Egyptian women crouched on this goddess' image during labor. Meskhoni appeared at
the precise moment when contractions began and remained through the delivery to
predict the future of the newborn. She often appeared as a woman wearing palm
shoots on her head.
Mut
Mut is seen as the mother, the nurturing force behind all things while her husband
Amen is the great energy or creative force. In ancient Egyptian, "mut" means mother.
Neb-Ti
The ruling goddess of the north, Uadgit, and south, Nekhebet and a political symbol
of the unification of Egypt.
Nekhebet
Nekhebet is the vulture headed goddess of the Nile's source. She and the goddess
Uadgit formed the Neb-Ti, a symbol of the political unification of Egypt. She is also
the patroness of laboring women and combined her political and motherly roles in
her mystic task of suckling the pharaohs-to-be.