Qadesh was Middle-Eastern goddess of sacred ecstasy and sexual pleasure, adopted in the New Kingdom by the Egyptians into a triad with the gods Min and Reshep.
Her name, probably meaning the "holy", gives no clue to her origins but
she seems to be a manifestation of the sensuousness inherent in the
goddesses Astarte and Anat.
Qadesh rides naked on the back of a lion and holds out symbols of
eroticism and fertility to her companions; lotuses for Min and snakes or
papyrus plants for Reshep. In the Levant the cult of Qadesh, like that
of Astarte, involved her acolytes simulating the sacred marriage of the
goddess with Reshep. This sexuality displayed by Qadesh naturally led to
an identification between her and Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love.
So long my friends,
Evalina
Thank you for sharing something interesting every day, Evalina! I never knew about any of these Egyptians!
ReplyDeleteAnother Egyptian god I'd never heard of, although I can understand why - risque gods are the last ones to get mentioned in school :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about Egyptian gods. This is really interesting.
ReplyDeleteAt a glance, there are gods here that I've never heard of.
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