. A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians . Meskhenet. Renenet. the form of a winged serpent wearing the crown of theNorth, and also in the form of a woman, wearing thecrown of the North, and holding in her hand the lotussceptre. The centre of her cult was at Per-Uatchet in theDelta, and it seems that the serpent which represented thegoddess was worshipped there from
. A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians . Meskhenet. Renenet. the form of a winged serpent wearing the crown of theNorth, and also in the form of a woman, wearing thecrown of the North, and holding in her hand the lotussceptre. The centre of her cult was at Per-Uatchet in theDelta, and it seems that the serpent which represented thegoddess was worshipped there from time is usually depicted in the form of a cat-headedwoman, and the cat was sacred to her. The home of her o in menWQ
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