Symbols and worship of the goddess Mereretsger His cult is attested as the Ramesside the New Kingdom and only on the left bank of Thebes .
She is often depicted as a coiled snake-headed woman, or more rarely headed snake. He also knows the appearance of a sphinx -headed snake, or a winged serpent that coiffent three-headed woman, snake and vulture. His head is most often wearing a headband. It may also be surrounded with a modius uraei. Two feathers, a sun disk , the Atef , the red crown or crown Hathoric can also style.
His symbols are the snakes , especially the non-venomous. Her element is the earth, since it is a snake. Its colors are black and yellow.
Parties are dedicated mainly popular, as was the case at Deir el-Medina.
Places of worship are the most famous necropolis of the Theban hills, the village worker Deir el-Medina , Deir el-Bahari and Esna.
Notes
- Alternative spelling: Meretseger, Mertseger, Mert-Seger.
- Corteggiani Article "Meresger ', p. 322.
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