Menkeret

also Menket, Menqet

Menkeret was the goddess who carried the deceased king wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt on her head through the marshes of the Underworld. She and Sekhmet were guards of the Eye of Horus, and by extension protectors of the sons of the sun, the pharaohs.
She is known from representations in tombs (Tutankhamen), from the Book of the Amduat, and from Late Period texts. Menqet

Menqet

Menqet holding two vessels
After E. A. Wallis Budge, Gods of the Egyptians 1904, vol.2

According to spell 101 in the Book of the Dead Menqet was to make plants germinate upon the body of the Osiris Nu in the translation of Budge [1], while Carol Andrews [2] has her plant a bush over his breast. She was considered to be the provider of beer.

[1] E. A. W. Budge, The Book of the Dead, vol.II, London 1901, chapter CI
[2] Carol Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, University of Texas Press, 1994, p.100

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January 2007