Mut

Mut ('Mother') is the great Theban mother-goddess, consort of Amun and mother of the moon-god Khonsu — the second member of the Theban Triad. Appearing in the record from the late Middle Kingdom, she displaced Amun's earlier consorts Amunet and Wosret and rose with Amun-Re to national prominence in the New Kingdom. Her Karnak precinct, ringed by the crescent isheru lake and filled with hundreds of Sekhmet statues, identifies her with the fierce-and-pacified solar Eye of Ra; she is distinctively crowned with the royal Double Crown and writes her name with the vulture. Authored here to materialize the maternal anchor named inside the existing Khonsu entry ('son of Amun and Mut'); wired spouse -> egyptian_amun (reciprocal needed on Amun) and mother-of -> egyptian_khonsu (parentIds update needed on Khonsu).

Domains

• motherhood
• kingship and sovereignty
• solar eye and protection

Powers

• Reign as Queen and Mother of the Gods
• Embody the Eye of Ra in both its raging (Sekhmet) and pacified aspects
• Mother the gods and the king as the Theban great mother

Epithets

• mwt wrt nbt jšrw egyptian · Mut weret nebet Isheru · cultMut the Great, Lady of Isheru — her title at the Karnak precinct with the crescent sacred lake.Karnak, precinct of Mut, temple inscriptions (primary)
• nbt pt ḥnwt nṯrw egyptian · nebet pet henut netjeru · cultLady of Heaven, Mistress of all the Gods — her sovereign-mother title in the Theban Triad.Te Velde, 'Mut', in Lexikon der Ägyptologie IV (1982) (secondary)
• mwt jṯt snt egyptian · mut itjet senet · hymnic'Mother who became a daughter' — her self-generative epithet expressing the fluid wife/mother/daughter role beside the periodically reborn Amun-Khonsu.Te Velde, 'Towards a Minimal Definition of the Goddess Mut', JEOL 26 (1979-80) (secondary)
• jrt-rꜥ Egyptian · iret-Ra · cultEye of RaWilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (2003) (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: AmunConsort of Amun from the late Middle Kingdom, displacing Amunet and Wosret; the maternal half of the Theban Triad. RECIPROCAL needed on the existing egyptian_amun entry (spouse -> egyptian_mut).Karnak Theban-Triad reliefs (Amun-Mut-Khonsu) (primary); Wikipedia, 'Theban Triad'; Britannica, 'Mut' (secondary)
• mother of: KhonsuMother of the moon-god Khonsu, the divine child of the Theban Triad; the existing egyptian_khonsu entry names 'Amun and Mut' but lists only egyptian_amun in parentIds, so egyptian_mut should be added there.Karnak, temple of Khonsu; the Theban-Triad processional reliefs (primary); Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (2003), s.v. Khonsu, Mut (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Te Velde, 'Mut', in Lexikon der Ägyptologie IV (1982), cols. 246-248 (secondary); Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (2003), s.v. Mut (secondary)
• consort-of-Amun-and-mother-of-Khonsu-in-the-Theban-Triad: Karnak Theban-Triad reliefs (Amun-Mut-Khonsu); the temple of Khonsu inscriptions (primary); Te Velde, 'Towards a Minimal Definition of the Goddess Mut', JEOL 26 (1979-80) (secondary)