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: Khnum

Sources

• Reference treatments of Menhit and of the Esna triad.