In ancient Egypt, women were treated the same way as men because the Egyptian cosmology was made of both male and female divinities.
Throughout the Egyptian religion, female divinities were mostly seen as nurturers and protectors of the pharaoh and his people. But unlike mainstream goddesses like Sekhmet or Isis, there are two others who are rarely talked about when discussing the Egyptian mythology,
so today we are going to discuss the legend surrounding the entities closely related to the pharaoh’s sovereignty, the goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet representing the Upper and Lower domains of Egypt. According to the ancient Egyptian scriptures, the "Two Ladies" was a religious epithet for the goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet, the two deities worship by all after the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt. When the two kingdoms were joined together, a lot of similar deities from different cities were combined to form a unique entity, but this was not the case of Wadjet and Nekhbet as they were simply kept separated. From the early dynastic period, the Two Ladies were the divine protectors of the king and were featured on royal headdresses, jewelries and furniture. Nekhbet whose name signifies She of Nekheb was a local mother goddess identified with the crown of Upper Egypt, equating to Wadjet, the snake-goddess of royal authority whose name stands for the green one or She of the Papyrus. Her chief cult center were the twin cities that were made home of legendary kings of Khemet, and eventually became to be known as the house of Wadjet. The two ladies were represented by dangerous creatures that needed to be pacified in order to show how deadly they could be as protective deities. Wadjet is often depicted as a fire-breathing cobra and Nekhbet takes the form of a vulture with wings spread apart while holding the symbols of eternity in her talons. Nekhbet was also depicted as the white cow mentioned in the Pyramid scriptures, a familiar representation in respect of Egyptian mothers and creator goddesses. In the form of a vulture the goddess Nekhbet is shown hovering above the king, and the goddess Wadjet as the Uraeus symbol displayed on his crown which epitomizes the power of the pharaoh’s sovereignty. And thus Wadjet forms an essential part of the sun god’s symbolism, coiling around the sun to represent the destructive powers of the solar Eye of Ra. One of the five names given to the reigning pharaoh was referred to as Nebty, which means the ‘’Two Ladies’’ based on the standard naming convention used by the Ancient Egyptians.
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