48. Merseguer

Cobra or woman with head of cobra. Cobra with woman's head. In rare occasions,she has head of scorpion, lioness or aspect of sphinx with head of snake. She is crowned by a solar disc flanked by two horns and a frieze of ureos the one that there emerge two high pens (or the symbol of Occident).

The first information that we have of this goddess belongs to the Average Kingdom. She is chief of the teban necropolis where she demonstrates as a local form of Hathor. She symbolized the ctonic and as such she was residing in Occident, the place where she was located in the otherworld. As such, she was living in the top of the hill that dominates the Valley of the Kings and was taking the title of " the one that loves the silence ", " Lady of the West ", that is to say, of the mountain that receives in his bosom the bodies of the deceased of the area of Tebas.

She enjoyed big popular worship during the New Kingdom, especially in Ramess Epoch, since it was demonstrated to to find numerous references of her, especially in the working city of Deir the-Medina.

In addition to West of Tebas protected the burials placed in the shore, she was a goddess in charge of the justice and the medicine. Merseguer could cause the death and, depending on the committed absence, it might transport or to treat the blindness, for what it was to her whom it was necessary to invoke to be protected against the sting of ofidios. As all the goddesses snakes, Merseguer identified with the royal ureo, but her worship stopped being important after the dynasty the XXIst.

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