Name: Anuket
Other Names:  Anqet, Anukis
Translation: "Embracing Lady"
Origin: Egyptian
Attributes: The water goddess of Elephantine.
Relations: Daughter of Satet, the wife of Khnemu.
Representation
and symbols:
Portrayed with a crown made of reed and topped with ostrich feathers. The gazelle is her sacred animal..

 

1) The Egyptian goddess of the Nile, and nourisher of the fields. She formed a triad with Chnum and Satis. Her principal sanctuary as at Elephantine, an island near Aswan. Anuket (Anqet) was portrayed with a crown made of reed and topped with ostrich feathers. The gazelle is her sacred animal. Later she became known as 'Ruler of Numibia'. Her Greek form is Anukis.

2) Anqet was the goddess of the island of Sahal, near the First Cataract of the Nile. She was shown as a woman who wears a crown of ostrich feathers. Her sacred animal was the gazelle. She was the daughter of Satet, the wife of Khnemu. Together, the three deities formed the Triad of Elephantine, the principal deities of that city. Anqet was originally a water goddess from Sudan. Her name meant, "to embrace" which was interpreted to mean that her embrace during the annual Nile floods fertilized the fields. Later, she became a goddess of lust, whose attributes and cult were obscene. However, her cult's origina can be traced back to the Old Kingdom. She is closely associated with Nubia. She is not an imported goddess though. Her worship was common throughout northern Nubia and the center of her worship was the island of Sahal, near Aswan. There she was called the "Lady of Sahal" (Nebt Satet). Anqet's temple at Sahal was called "Amen-heri-ab".

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