Tayet

**Tayet**


 * Other Names:**

Tait, Tatet, Tayer


 * Meaning of Name:**

“Shroud”


 * Hieroglyphics:**



Tayet was the patroness of weavers, clothing-makers, and those who wrapped mummies. As a goddess of weaving, Tayet’s role was to protect the woven cloth used for embalming, assuring its purity and perfection. In the Old Kingdom a prayer was addressed to the goddess to clothe the king and lift him up to the sky, “guarding his head and gathering his bones.” Tayet also weaved the curtain which hung in the tent of purification where the ritual of embalmment was carried out. The “Land of Tayet” was a term for the mummy bandages. Funerary texts describe the horizon as the cloak of Ptah the Creator, “which Tayet herself wove.” Because linen bandages were also used to bind injuries, it was thought that Tayet also protected from the threat of blood hemorrhages, and ensured the cleanliness of wounds. She was pictured as a cow.

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