Kebehwet

**Kebehwet**


 * Other Names:**

Kebehut, Qeb-Hwt, Anput, Input


 * Meaning of Name:**

“Cooling Water”


 * Hieroglyphics:**

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 * Family:**

Kebehwet was the daughter-wife of Anubis.

Because water gives life, Kebehwet offered the deceased drinks of water at the tomb to revivify them. She purified the pharaoh and was said to be “his sister, the one whom he loves.” Kebehwet also helped to open the “windows of the sky” to assist the king’s resurrection. Kebehwet was pictured as a woman with the head of a cobra, or as a celestial serpent with a body of stars. In rare instances she was pictured as an ostrich or as a woman with the head of a jackal.


 * Quotes from the Book of the Dead and other sources:**

The Pyramid Texts says: “The goddess Kebehwet, the daughter of Anubis, finds him, and she goes to meet him with the four nemset vases. She refreshes the breast of the great god on the day of his watch, and she refreshes the breast of him with life. She washes him, she cleanses him.”

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