Satis 97387 225032127 2008-07-11T15:39:23Z Ezhiki 48143 for-->otherusesof; formatting: 4x whitespace (using [[User:Cameltrader#Advisor.js|Advisor.js]]) {{Otherusesof}} {{Template:Ancient Egyptian religion}} In [[Egyptian mythology]], '''Satis''' (also spelt '''Satjit''', '''Sates''', ''Satet'', and '''Sati''') was the deification of the [[flood]]s of the [[Nile River]], and her cult originated in the [[Ancient Egypt|ancient]] city of [[Swenet]], now called [[Aswan]] on the southern edge of [[Egypt]]. Her name means ''she who shoots forth'' referring to the annual flooding of the river. She was an early [[war goddess|war]], [[hunting]], and [[fertility goddess|fertility]] deity who was seen as the mother of the [[Nile River]], [[Anuket]], and a protector of southern Egypt. One of her titles was ''She Who Runs Like an Arrow'', which is thought to refer to the river current, and her symbols became the arrow and the running river. Satis was pictured as a woman wearing the conical [[crown]] of [[Upper Egypt]] with [[gazelle]] or [[antelope]] horns, or as an antelope, a fast moving creature living near the banks of the river in the southern portion of [[Ancient Egypt]]. She also was depicted with a bow and arrows. Other interpretations say her primary role was that of the war goddess, a guardian of Egypt's southern (Nubian) frontier and killing the enemies of the Pharaoh with her arrows. She usually is depicted as holding an [[ankh]] also, due to her association with the life giving flooding of the Nile. Consequently, it is true that Satis acted as a fertility goddess, thus granting the wishes of those who sought love. Satis is also described as offering jars of [[purification|purifying]] water. Later she became regarded as one of the consorts of [[Khnum]], the god identified as the guardian of the source of the Nile, with whom she was worshipped at [[Elephantine]] (the 1st [[Nome (Egypt)|nome]] of [[Egypt]]), indeed the centre of her cult was nearby, at Sahal, another island of the Nile. Since she was most dominant at the southern end of Egypt, she became regarded as the guard of Egypt's southern border with [[Nubia]]. Satis's child was [[Anuket]], goddess of the [[Nile River]] herself, who formed the third part of the Elephantine triad of deities when formed. After Khnum became considered a form of [[Ra]], Satis became known as the ''[[Eye of Ra]]''. [[Category:Egyptian goddesses]] [[Category:Egyptian mythology]] [[Category:Sea and river goddesses]] {{Egyptian-myth-stub}} [[bg:Сатис]] [[ca:Llista de personatges de la Mitologia Egípcia#S]] [[de:Satis]] [[es:Satet]] [[fr:Satis]] [[it:Satet]] [[lt:Sati (egiptiečių mitologija)]] [[nl:Satet]] [[no:Satis]] [[pl:Satis]] [[pt:Satet]] [[sv:Satis]]