Meshkent

Pantheon: Egyptian
Titles: The Place Where One Delivers
Alternate Names/Spellings: Mersekhnet, Meskhenet
Gender: Female

Meshkent is the Goddess of Childbirth and Child Delivery, and it is thought that she is the bringer of relief to women in labour. Meshkent also spoke to the gods on behalf of the deceased.

In art, Meshkent appears as a woman wearing two curved palm shoots. Alternately she may appear as two bricks thay may or may not have human heads.

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