Mut (Mother)

Mut with Vulture headress and double crown of united egypt

Mother Goddess

Main Wife of Amun.  Mut was symbolic of the divine mother.  Similer to Isis and Hathor.  She is usually depicted as a slim women with a colorfull dress wearing a vulture headdress.  However her main symbol is not the vulture but the lioness
linking her with her northern counter part Sekhmet. Although most sceens with her are with a vulture the amount of cat and lion statues of her far surpass that with a vulture.  She appears on almost every temple wall in egypt symbolizing her importents as the divine mother of the pharaoh.  She later melded with Bast and the two became known as Mut-Bastet
 
 

Mut as Mother Lioness
Main Temples

1.  Isheru near Karnak
2. Thebes
 
 


Sacred Symbol Family Identified with
Lioness
Cat
Vulture
Mother of Khonsu 
Wife of Amun
Isis
Hathor
Bast
Sekhmet
Amaunet


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