Seshat

Seshat does the paperwork of the cosmos. She is writing, arithmetic, measurement and architecture at once — which is one office in a civilisation where laying out a building, counting the harvest and recording a reign are the same skill — and her job in the ritual calendar is the foundation ceremony: she and the king hold the two ends of a cord and fix the axis of a new temple by sighting on the stars. She has no temple of her own, only everyone else's. She also writes the king's years on the notched palm rib, which is the same instrument Heh holds, and the registry held Thoth without her.

Domains

• writing
• measurement

Powers

• to lay out a temple's ground plan by stretching the measuring cord against the stars

Relations

• counterpart of: ThothRead as Thoth's female aspect, his daughter or his wife depending on the text. The registry carried him and not her, which for the two gods of writing is a lopsided arrangement.Reference treatment of Seshat as the female counterpart, daughter or wife of Thoth. (secondary)

Sources

• Seshat is the Egyptian goddess of writing, measurement and architecture, keeper of the books, who assists the king in the stretching-of-the-cord foundation ritual and is identified as Thoth's counterpart, daughter or wife.: Reference treatments of Seshat, her offices, her iconography and her relation to Thoth. (secondary)