Meskhenet

Meskhenet is the ancient Egyptian goddess of childbirth. She is also the creator of Ka, a part of the soul of man to which Meskhenet will breathe into each person at the moment of his or her birth. She is one of the very few deities that have been worshipped since the earliest of times in Egypt.

Meskhenet Media

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  Meskhenet depicted as a birth brick

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  Meskhenet depicted as a birth brick in a Weighing of the Heart scene painted on a coffin

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  Meskhenet as a birth brick depicted above the scales in a Weighing of the Heart scene in Ptolemaic temple at Deir el-Medina