wadjet

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1. wadjet - Noun

2. Wadjet - Proper noun

Meaning

Wadjet

(mythology) The patron goddess and namesake of the Ancient Egyptian city of Per-Wadjet, known as Buto to the Greeks. Wadjet takes the form of a cobra and is associated with the Eye of Horus.

wadjet (plural wadjets)

Alternative form of udjat (“the Eye of Horus”)

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The oracle of Wadjet may have been the source for the oracular tradition which spread from Egypt to Greece. Source: Internet

The title is preceded by the vulture (Nekhbet) and the cobra (Wadjet) standing on a basket (the neb sign). Source: Internet

Harvard University Press.1985.p 116-118 In Egypt the goddess Wadjet (eye of the moon) was depicted as a snake-headed woman or a woman with two snake-heads. Source: Internet

The secret of Crete (1987:134) The Egyptian snake goddess Wadjet was associated with the city known to the Greeks as Aphroditopolis (the city of Aphrodite). Source: Internet

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