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Goddess Imentet

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King Horemheb (inside
his tomb)
Goddess Imentet, or Amentet, was a goddess of the dead, Amentet is the personification of  the  west,  the  home  of  the  gone.  Amentet, a sympathize with  companion,  helps  the  souls  of  the dead journey to their living direct in the Nether-world. From her home in the branches of a tree at the border of the desert, Amentet watched for the souls as they  approached  the  charm  to  the  Netherworld, or next world. Its positioning was believed to be in the western desert. Amentet extended bread and water to the beat souls, and if they accepted her hospitality, it  meant  they  walked  with  the  gods  and  would peacefully introduce the next world. The ancient Egyptian word amentet means the infrared place, the land of the going down sun, where the broken gained for their  trying  journey  through  the  12  hours  of  the Duat in the dedicated boat of the sun God Ra. Another translation of the myth states us that Amentet met the souls of the broken at the end of their journey  to  the  Netherworld.  Here  the  goddess  assisted with  the  rebirth  of  their  souls  and  admitted  them with food and drink.

Amentet  frequently  seems  in  the  company  of  other goddesses  connected  with  fertility  and  resurrection. Sometimes she is a winged goddess, on with Isis and  Nephthys  when  they  assist  with  the  magical resurrection  of  a  mummy.  When  Amentet  comes out with Hathor (Hathor-Amentet), she becomes a solar goddess  of  the  west.  She  is  often  in  the  company of  Re-Horakhty  (Horus  of  the  Two  Horizons). Together  they  received  the  souls  of  the  gone to  their  new  dwelling  place  in  the  Netherworld and  assisted  with  their  resurrection.  Amentet  besides sometimes came out with Iabet, who, as goddess of the east, was Amentets twin.

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