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Goddesses and Gods.wps - Welcome to Our Temple

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spoke the final judgment of the soul at a human's death.<br />

Sheshat<br />

"The mistress of the house of books", Sheshat is the inven<strong>to</strong>r of writing <strong>and</strong> the<br />

secretary of heaven. She is also the "mistress of the house of architects", the goddess<br />

that studies the stars <strong>to</strong> determine the axes of new buildings. She invented<br />

mathematics <strong>and</strong> is the appointed goddess of fate who measures the length of our<br />

lives with palm branches.<br />

Tefnut<br />

Tefnut is the goddess of daybreak <strong>and</strong> associated with themountains from which the<br />

sun rises.<br />

Uadgit<br />

The sovereign cobra goddess of lower Egypt <strong>and</strong> the Nile delta. Uadgit joined with<br />

Nekhebet <strong>to</strong> form the "two mistrersses" of the l<strong>and</strong> called the Neb-Ti, a political<br />

symbol of the unification of Egypt.

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