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Connected to Amon’s temple, there was Mut’s home, who was the Theban God’s
bride, celebrated in all his power by the pharaohs of the XVIII dynasty. A long
path guarded by the sphinxes along it, led to the temple of the goddess of
maternity, called also “Mother of mothers”. Sometimes Mut was represented as a
vulture, in fact, the hieroglyphic used to write the goddess’s name was actually
the vulture, for this reason the mother, the queen or the pharaoh’s bride wore
on her head a diadem in the shape of a vulture.
Aslso to his son Khonsu inside the sanctuary in Karnak was dedicated a
temple, the powerful Theban threesome was so celebrated. Inside the temple on
the shores of a small lake in the shape of a horseshoe, Mut was invoked as “Lady
of Isheru”. |
