Seshat Goddess of Wisdom
Classification: NTR, Goddess
Culture: North African Kemetic/Egyptian Civilization
Associated: Writing, Recording, Mathematics
Seshat, goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing. Scribe of
the gods. Credited with the invention of writing and the alphabet.
Seshat was the goddess who measured and recorded the world.
As “Lady of Builders” she was the matron of architecture
astronomy and mathematics. Known as she who was foremost in the library.
Seshat usually wears a Panther skin a symbol of priestly
office. She sometimes carries a palm frond carved with notches to mark the
passing of years.
As a goddess of writing session was the keeper of Royal
annals and genealogies. She was shown recording the booty game by Kings and
battle perhaps as a reminder that a share was due to the gods.
Seshat was even said to descend into the underworld to
record everything in the realm of the dead. From his early as the second
dynasty she was shown assisting Kings to layout the foundations for temples and
align them with the stars and planets.
In the divine realm Seshat
was in charge of building and the
mansions of the gods. She was sometimes assisted in this task by the gods of
sight and hearing.
Seshat also built mansions in the West for the fortunate
dead. She was occasionally identified as an aspect of the goddess Nephthys. In
the coffin texts sextette is said to be angry at a child she gives birth to just
as later tradition made Nephthys reject her son Anubis. And another coffin text
Thoth ans Seshat bring writing to a man
in the realm of the dead. These writings were spells that would help the dead
person to Vanquish terrors of the underworld and become a powerful spirit.
She is the sister to the lion headed goddess Bast
In later mythologies she is said to be the scribe of Hatshepsut
the 18th dynasty female Pharaoh.
Her mysterious headdress consists of a 7 pointed star or
seven petaled flower which is associated with the cannabis plant.
In it is written that Seshat opens the door to heaven for
you, is often translated as reference to the psychotropic effects of the
cannabis plant.
"Cannabis is mentioned as a medication in the following
ancient Egyptian medical texts: Ramesseum III Papyrus (1700 B.C.E.), Eber’s
Papyrus (1600 B.C.E.), the Berlin Papyrus (1300 B.C.E.), and the Chester Beatty
VI Papyrus (1300 B.C.E.). The Eber’s Papyrus is the oldest known complete
medical textbook in existence. Most scholars believe that it is copy of a much
earlier text, probably from around 3100 B.C.E."
A thus a modern veneration for the Goddess persist.
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