Renpet
Egyptian · deity · old kingdom · Recorded classification
Renpet is a unit of measurement with a face. The palm shoot is the hieroglyph for 'year' — a notched rib of it is what Heh and Seshat hold when they count a reign — and the word, made into a goddess, is called Mistress of Eternity. She is one of a large Egyptian family of deified abstractions where the god and the ordinary noun are the same word: Maat is rightness, Heka is magic, Hu is speech, Shai is fate, and Renpet is a year.
Domains
- time
Sources
- Renpet is the Egyptian personification of the year, shown with a palm shoot on her head, called Mistress of Eternity and associated with fertility, youth and spring.: Reference treatment of Renpet, her name, her palm-shoot sign and her epithets. (secondary)