9 World Chronicles

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 18^th 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.