Menhit

**Menhit**


 * Other Names:**

Menchit, Menkhet


 * Meaning of Name:**

“She Who Has Fierce Eyes”


 * Hieroglyphics:**




 * Titles:**

“She Who Massacres”


 * Family:**

The wife of Anhur. Sometimes Menhit was said to be the wife of Khnum and the mother of Heka.

Originally a foreign war goddess, she came from Nubia with Anhur who had been her counterpart and husband there. Due to the aggressive attributes possessed by and hunting methods used by lionesses, most things connected to warfare in Egypt were depicted as leonine, and Menhit was no exception, being depicted as a lioness-headed goddess. In rare occasions she was pictured as a serval or caracal. She was believed to advance ahead of the Egyptian armies and cut down their enemies with fiery arrows, similar to Sekhmet.


 * Egyptian Names Honoring This Deity:**

Ta-Mehit, Thes-Mehit-pert

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