Iabet

**Iabet**


 * Othe****r Names:**

Iabtet, Iab, Abet, Ab


 * Meaning of Name:**

“The Riser”


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 * Titles:**

//Khentet// (“She Who is Before the East”)


 * Family:**

She was thought to be the mother-wife of the god Min.

Iabet was the goddess of the Eastern Desert, fertility, and rebirth. She was the personification of the land of the East. Iabet was believed to cleanse the god Ra, and was linked to the rising of the sun in the East. She was pictured as a woman wrapped in a leopard skin, or, occasionally, as a white sow. The companion of the goddess of the West, Amaunet, these two goddesses appear together on private tombs, on coffins and sarcophagi, and on funerary papyri.


 * Egyptian Names Honoring This Deity:**

Nefer-Iabet ("Beautiful of Iabet")

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