Tenenet, alts. Tjenenet, Zenenet, Tanenet, Tenenit,

Manuel de Codage The Manuel de Codage (), abbreviated MdC, is a standard system for the computer-encoding of transliterations of Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. History In 1984 a committee was charged with the task to develop a uniform system for the encoding of hier ...

transliteration ''Tnn.t'', was an ancient Egyptian goddess of

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. She is mentioned in texts dating from the Ptolemaic period as well as in the Book of the Dead.

Associations with childbirth and beer

Tenenet was associated with childbirth and was invoked as the protector of the uterus for pregnant women.

Worship

Her cult centre was at

Hermonthis Armant ( ar, أرْمَنْت; egy, jwn.w-n-mnṯ.w or ''jwn.w-šmꜥ.w''; Bohairic: ; Sahidic: ), also known as Hermonthis ( grc, Ἕρμωνθις), is a town located about south of Thebes. It was an important Middle Kingdom town, which was ...

. She was a consort of Monthu. She was later merged with Raet-Tawy,

Isis Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...

and

Iunit Iunit was a minor goddess in ancient Egyptian religion, whose name means "She of Armant". She is the consort of Montu Montu was a falcon-god of war in ancient Egyptian religion, an embodiment of the conquering vitality of the pharaoh.Hart, Ge ...

.W. Max Muller, ''Egyptian Mythology'', Kessinger Publishing 2004, , p.150

References

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