Amentet

Her name, meaning "the female hidden one", was simply the feminine form of Amun's own name. Therefore, it is likely that she was never an independent deity, but was created as his female counterpart. Amentet was originally a place for the setting sun but with time she became hostess in the next world. She took care of the dead and guided them to their new home and supplied them with food and water.
 From her shelter in a tree at the edge if the desert she had a good view over the gates if the underworld. Her looks were of a woman with objects on her head. A falcon, an ostrich feather and a symbol for the west. She was linked to the main goddesses and occasionally she was depicted with wings. Her parents where Horus and Hathor. She also represented the setting sun.
 The place of the West.
Amenti or Amentet was originally the place where the sun set, but subsequently the name was applied to the cemeteries and tombs which were usually built or hewn in the stony plateaus and mountains on the western bank of the Nile. Some believe that Amenti was, at first, the name of a small district, without either funereal or mythological signification. The Christian Egyptians or Copts used the word Amend to translate the Greek word Hades, to which they attributed all the ideas which their heathen ancestors had associated with the Amenti of The Book of the Dead.

-- E. A. Wallis Budge (2011), The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum, p. cxxxiii

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Ancient wall hanging from Egypt

She was depicted as a beautiful woman as wearing the hieroglyph of the west - - on her head, carrying a sceptre and the ankh of life in her hands. She is occasionally seen as a winged goddess, when linked to the goddesses Isis and Nephthys. The standard of the west is usually a half circle sitting on top of two poles of uneven length, the longer of which is tied to her head by a headband. Often a hawk or an ostrich feather is seen sitting on top of the standard. This hieroglyph was used in words such as 'west' and words relating to the west such as, 'western' as well as 'right' and 'right hand'. Occasionally, she is shown wearing just the hawk on her head. She was believed to live in a tree at the edge of the desert, a place where she could watch the gates to the underworld. She was often shown not only in tombs, but on coffins, being a goddess of the dead.

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© Caroline Seawright

  
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