TEMPLE OF MUT Greetings and welcome to Waset (Thebes) in Kemet (Egypt). We Egyptians love our gods, they are part of our everyday life. Let us take a tour around the temple and learn about the great goddess known as Mut.

Mut's name is the same root as the Egyptian word for 'mother', thus she is known as the great world mother and mother to the pharaohs. In Thebes she replaces Amaunet to become wife of the great Amun. Amun and Mut's son was called Khensu (Khonsu,Khons) and is god of the moon. Together the three formed the Thebian Triad.

courtesy of Senenmut Hatshepsut

Mut is portrayed many different ways. Most commonly as a woman wearing a headdress in the shape of a vulture with the double crowns of Egypt. But she is also known to have a the head of a lioness or dual heads of man and woman. In all depictions she always carries a papyrus sceptre in one hand and the ankh in the other. (the papyrus a main symbol of Egypt and the ankh meaning eternal life)

Mut was also known as; the great lady of asher, the lady of heaven, the queen of the gods and most commonly -Mut, who giveth birth but was herself not born of any. Many pharaohs believed that one would be considered more sacred by using the divine afiliation with Mut. Sethos I used - 'son of Amun and born of Mut' after his two principle names.

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