Mehit

also Mehyt, Mekhyt

Mehit (MdC transliteration mH.yt) was a leonine goddess, identified like other lion goddesses with the Eye of Re, and a consort of Onuris. She was a fierce and dangerous deity and a text from hellenistic times contains the following threat against Seth:

When you come from the north, the gods of the North will throw you down, Onuris, Mehit, the great gods of the (northern) Behdet and who are in Hau-nebu (lands north of Egypt), they will fulfill their destination concerning you.
Papyrus of Imhotep, son of Pshentohe ^[1]

Her cult centres was at This. She was depicted as a woman with the head of a lioness, at times wearing the atef-crown.

[1] After the transliteration and German translation by F. Feder ed., on the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae website, Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften => späte Ritualbücher => Späte Totenliturgien => Papyrus des Imhotep Sohn des Pschentohe New York MMA 35.9.21 => 3. Die Enthüllungen der Geheimnisse der vier Kugeln aus Ton

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