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The Great Goddesses of Egypt

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The great goddesses of Egypt inspired magnificent temples and art and a literature that speaks in their supreme importance to the ancients–women and men, royalty and commoners. On this book Barbara S. Lesko follows the changing fortunes, over thousands of years, of the seven so much significant Egyptian goddesses: Nut, Neith, Nekhbet, Wadjet, Hathor, Mut, and Isis. Some gave the impression in prehistory, and a few were later political creations. One was a universally revered goddess of the Greco-Roman world who successfully held her own against Christianity for five hundred years.

Although they continuously assumed human form, some goddesses were associated with animals that Lesko traces back to African clan divinities. Understood as the sun’s heat, the Milky Way, the flood, and the mummy of the king of Egypt, the good goddesses also assumed the caring role of protector for deserving humans, assisting with careers, romance, and fertility. They held out the promise of eternal life, and records show that they won fierce loyalty from their followers.

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