Hat-Mehit

**Hat-Mehit**


 * [[image:006fsjudhd.jpg width="158" height="300" align="left"]]Other Names:**

Hat-Mehyt


 * Meaning of Name:**

“She Who is in Front of the Fishes”


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 * Family:**

Hat-Mehit’s husband was thought to be Banebdjedet. Sometimes she was considered to be the mother of Horus.

A river goddess of fertility and plenty, Hat-Mehit’s cult was considered the foremost of the relatively rare fish cults of ancient Egypt. The patron of fishermen, she was usually depicted as a woman with a fish above her head, or as a fish. The particular form of fish was earlier believed to be a dolphin, but has now been identified as the lepidotus fish. This fish was once common in the Nile, but is now extinct.

Egyptian Deities - H