Auset holds the Ankh, symbol of life, and the sistrum of Kemetic temple dancers. She wears the horned solar disc of Hetheru (Hathor) and the vulture crown of Mut, the Mother. Auset is clothed in the night sky, her hips encircled by the Knot of Isis.

 

 

 

Auset

Isis of 10,000 names, the great goddess of Nubia: Giver of Life, Mother of the Gods, Maker of the Sunrise, Great Enchantress. As the star Sirius, her rising with the sun signals a new year and the fertilizing floodtide of the Nile. So Auset was also praised as Opener of the Year, Creatrix of the Nile Inundation, Lady of Abundance, Lady of Green Crops and of Bread.

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