Seshat
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Seshat is tri-aspected with Nit and Nebt-het.
Name
Seshat
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The Female Scribe
Names - Alternate
Sesat, Sesheta, Seshata, Safekh-Aubi
Appearance
- Can appear as a woman with a star flower on her head, wearing a leopard skin.
- Seshat is depicted as a woman dressed in the long skirt and leopard-skin of a Sem priest, with an obscure symbol on Her head comprised of a seven-pointed star or rosette crowned by either downturned horns or a bow.
Parents
Consorts
Epithets
Roles
Along with Nit and Nebthet, Seshat concerns herself with the passage of time.
- Records the royal name of the Nisut at birth
- Records the royal titulary at coronation
- Grants the Nisut Sed-festivals
- Keeps count of the spoils brought back from war
- Marks the king's lifespan on her palm stalk
- Helps mark out a new temple's perimeter in a ritual called, "Stretching of the Cord"
Myths
Offerings
Food/Drink
- Fortune cookies
Items
- Fountain pens
- paper
- notebooks
Stones
- Aventurine
- Fossils
- Garnet
- Leopard Jasper
- Tourmaline
Scents
- Jasmine (particularly Jasminum auriculatum)
- Star Anise
Colours
- White
- Yellow
