Satis - The goddess of the flood

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1.Name
(1)Her name can be variously translated as "She who Shoots" or "She who Pours" depending on which of her roles is being emphasized.
(2)Her name was originally written with the hieroglyph for a linen garment's shoulder knot; this was later replaced by Anuket's animal hide pierced by an arrow.
(3)She was also known by epithets, such as "Mistress of Elephantine" and "She Who Runs Like an Arrow", thought to refer to the flowing river current.

2.History
(1)Satis was a goddess of the Upper Egyptians. Her cult is first attested on jars beneath the Step Pyramid of Saqqara (Dynasty III). She appears in the Pyramid Texts (Dynasty VI) purifying a deceased pharaoh's body with four jars of water from Elephantine.
(2)She was particularly associated with the upper reaches of the Nile, which the Egyptians sometimes considered to have its source near Aswan. She is invoked in Aramaic as Sati on a divorce document in the Elephantine papyri.

3.Myths
(1)As a war goddess, Satis protected Egypt's southern Nubian frontier by killing the enemies of the pharaoh with her sharp arrows.
(2)As a fertility goddess, she was thought to grant the wishes of those who sought love.

4.Representation
(1)Satis was usually pictured as a woman in a sheath dress wearing the hedjet, the conical crown of Upper Egypt, with antelope horns.She is sometimes depicted with bow and arrows; holding an ankh or scepter; or offering jars of purifying water.
(2)Her symbols were the arrow and the running river.


Reference:
Wilkinson, Richard H. (2003), "Satis", The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 164–6, ISBN 0-500-05120-8.
Vygus, Mark (2015), Middle Egyptian Dictionary
https://archive.org/details/comp ... 0/page/164/mode/2up

瞧一桥

1.名字
（1） 她的名字可以被翻译成“射击的人”或“倾倒水的人”，这取决于她所扮演的角色。（2） 她的名字最初是用象形文字在亚麻衣服上的肩结写下的；后来被用箭刺穿的阿努克的兽皮替换
（3） 她还拥有被人们称为“大象夫人”和“像箭一样奔跑”等绰号，并被认为是流动的河水。
2.历史
（1） 萨蒂斯是上埃及人的女神。对她的崇拜首先在萨卡拉阶梯金字塔（王朝III）下的罐子上得到证实。她在用四个庞大的罐子净化的一位已故法老的尸体的金字塔文本（王朝VI）中出现
(2) 她与尼罗河上游特别地联系在一起，埃及人有时认为尼罗河的源头在阿斯旺附近。在大象纸莎草纸上的一份离婚文件中，她被阿拉米语称为萨蒂。
3.神话
(1)  作为一位战争女神，萨蒂斯用她的利箭杀死法老的敌人，从而保护了埃及南部努比亚边境。
（2） 作为一位生育女神，人们认为她能满足那些寻求爱情的人的愿望。
4.描述
（1） 萨蒂斯通常被描绘成一名身穿紧身衣的女子——头戴上埃及的装饰有羚羊角的圆锥形王冠。她有时被描绘成弓箭；手持安可或权杖；或提供净化水的罐子。
（2） 她象征的是箭和奔流的河流。

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