Mehit

Mehit is the distant one Anhur is named for leading back. The Distant Goddess story is one of the most-told in Egypt: the Eye of Ra takes offence, leaves for Nubia in the form of a lioness, and has to be coaxed or fetched home before the land can flourish again — a myth about the inundation coming up from the south, told as a family argument. Several goddesses play the part; at Thinis it is Mehit, and her husband's name is the record of the errand.

Domains

• war

Relations

• spouse: AnhurAnhur's wife, and the reason for his name: 'he who leads back the distant one' is a sentence about fetching her home.Reference treatment of Anhur and Mehit: he brought his wife Mehit, his female counterpart, back from Nubia, which is what his name records. (secondary)

Sources

• Mehit is an Egyptian lion goddess of Nubian origin, wife of Anhur at Thinis, identified as an aspect of the Eye of Ra who fled to Nubia and was brought back.: Reference treatments of Mehit and of Anhur. (secondary)