God's Wife of Amun (Egyptian: ḥm.t nṯr n ỉmn) was the highest-ranking priestess of the Amun cult, an important religious institution in ancient Egypt. The cult was centered in Thebes in Upper …

Mar 10, 2017 · There was a God's Wife of Ra, a God's Wife of Ptah, and a God's Wife of Amun along with other deities' ritual wives. These women were either the mother, wife, or eldest …

Amun [a] was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet. His oracle …

Few titles in ancient Egypt carried the same weight as the god's wife of Amun, a position that granted immense power to the women who held it. In the shadowy halls of Karnak, she …

Wife (as Amun): Amunet, a mother-goddess. Wife (as Amun-Ra): Mut, goddess of Thebes, female counterpart of Amun-Ra. Son: Khonsu, moon god of regeneration and healing

Jan 31, 2021 · Amun-Ra is a god created from the two most important deities of the ancient Egyptian pantheon: the gods Amun and Ra. Creator of the Universe, the Cosmos, and the …

Dispatched from the Delta capital of her father, Isis (daughter of Ramses VI) became the first single God’s Wife of Amun sent to Thebes to oversee her father’s interests there. Under the …

The adoption of king Kashta’s daughter, Amenirdis I, as God’s Wife of Amun made Kushite rule in Thebes legitimate. Occupied by a woman of the reigning royal family, the office of God’s Wife …

Jul 26, 2021 · The wife of Amun-Ra, Egyptian goddess Mut is known in the Book of the Dead as the creator of the souls and bodies of human beings. She is also seen as the deity who …

Celibacy becomes standard for God's Wife of Amun during the reign of Ramesses VI; his daughter Isis is the first celibate God's Wife.