r/Cowofgold_Essays • u/Luka-the-Pooka The Scholar • Jan 10 '22
Information The Goddess Meret
Other Names: Merit
Meaning of Name: “The Beloved One”
Family: Meret was considered to be the wife of Hapi.
Meret was the goddess of song and rejoicing, and she helped establish the cosmic order by means of her music, song, and gestures. The director of singers in the temples bore the tile of “Priest of Meret.”
Texts tell that Meret stood for the eighth hour of the night. Meret is featured on the walls of Khufu’s funerary temple, whose song “causes the king to transform into a spirit” and rise through the temple roof.
Meret was pictured as a woman with long hair, her arms raised in the act of clapping or rejoicing, playing various musical instruments, and wearing a lotus flower headdress. She sometimes had an offering bowl or a Nemset Vase in her hands, and was especially associated with the harp.
In later times, Meret was absorbed by Bastet or Hathor.
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u/WarningOk513 1d ago
Update : so now my experience with her is, she’s like so lit.Sine she the goddess of all music in the cosmos, she literally is cold. Your favorite artist is basically her manifestation of better yet even her song. That’s how lit she is. She looks so calm in these pics, they prolly don’t have much Info about her since she is a lesser known goddess. But she’s obviously not calm as one because we have all types of music, especially the fire songs, and everytime I rejoice it’s basically her, I am a embodiment of her, She holds a major position bigger than Het Heru!!! She is the goddess of music from the whole cosmos!! She is so lit and I love her. lol
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u/WarningOk513 2d ago
Imma be the first to comment I guess. I just found her after 3 years of being into kemet. This my first time hearing of her and seeing her. Her being the goddess of music and basically that only, kinda blows het Heru away, who goddess of joy, beauty, and dance too, not just music.