Anuket is the goddess of the Nile River, and is associated with the yearly flooding which “embraced” the fields nearby and gave life to the crops. She is often depicted with a gazelle, an ankh, and a headdress of ostrich feathers or reeds.
Anuket was the goddess of the Nile River. Her name means to “embrace”, much like the fields near the river which were embraced by the waters. The two tributaries of the Nile also stretched out like two arms, adding to the meaning behind Anuket’s moniker. She was thought to be the daughter of Khnum, the god of the source of the Nile (Lake Victoria) and Satis, the goddess of fertility. Together, the three deities were believed to control and protect the yearly flooding of the Nile River.
In some stories, she is associated with hunting, and so she is often depicted with a gazelle; sometimes she is also depicted with the head of a gazelle. Because of her association with bringing waters to crops around the Nile, which fertilized and nourished them, she was also associated with childbirth and child-rearing in some parts of the kingdom.
Khnum and Satis
Nile River, hunt, childbirth
Flooding of the Nile
{Microdata type="HowTo" id="9682"}Anuket je staroegipčanska boginja Nila in njegovih pritokov, pogosto prikazana kot ženska z pernatim okrasom na glavi. Častili so jo za njen vlogo pri zagotavljanju vode, plodnosti in hranjenja zemlje.
Anuket naj bi nadzorovala letne poplave Nila, ki so prinesle rodovitno blato in vodo na egiptovska polja. Njen blagoslov je zagotavljal uspešne pridelke in hrano za ljudi.
Anuket je pogosto prikazana z pernatim krono in včasih drži žezlo. Povezana je z gazelami in turkizno barvo, ki simbolizirata vodo in življenje.
Starodavni Egipčani so darovali predmete, kot so kovanci, nakit in hrana Anuket, da bi ji zahvalili za življenjsko vodo Nila in si prizadevali za njeno naklonjenost za obilne pridele.
Anuket je posebej povezana s spodnjim tokom Nila in njegovimi pritoki, medtem ko je Isis imela širše vloge v magiji in materinstvu, Satis pa je povezana z izvorom Nila in njegovo zaščito. Vsaka boginja je imela svoj region in odgovornosti znotraj egipčanske mitologije.