Menhit

Menhit goes first and burns things. She belongs to the large Egyptian class of lioness war goddesses — Sekhmet, Mehit, Pakhet, Bastet in her fierce mood — who are all, in one text or another, the Eye of Ra, and who are all the same idea: the sun's heat aimed at somebody. At Esna she is Khnum's wife, which is the ordinary arrangement whereby a god has a different consort in each of his towns and nobody minds.

Domains

• war

Relations

• consort of: KhnumKhnum's consort at Esna, as Satis is at Elephantine: the same god with a different wife in each of his towns, which is how Egyptian local theology normally works.Reference treatment of the Esna triad, in which Menhit stands as Khnum's consort. (secondary)

Sources

• Menhit is an Egyptian lion-headed war goddess of the south, consort of Khnum at Esna, whose name is read as 'she who slaughters'.: Reference treatments of Menhit and of the Esna triad. (secondary)