Thursday 14 August 2008

Atemet

The dwelling place and/or name of the goddess Hat-menit, who was depicted in
Egyptian temple art as a woman wearing headgear fashioned in the likeness of a
fish. Worshiped at Mendes, where her title was “Mother,” she was somehow connected
to the Lands of Punt often associated with the islands of Atlantis. Budge
believed Atemet was a form of Hathor, the goddess responsible for the world flood.
Atemet’s Atlantean name, fish-crown (queen of the sea), and connections to both
Punt and Hathor identify her with some of the leading features of the Atlantis story.

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