Gods and Goddesses
Middle Eastern
Egyptian
Anukis

TYPE: Birth Goddess

ORIGIN: Egyptian (Upper)

MAJOR CULT CENTER: Elephantine, Seheil

SYMBOL: Bow, arrows, gazelle, ostrich feather

PARENTS: Khnum and Satet

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INFORMATION:Minor deity with cult centers in lower Nubia and Elephantine. She is variously the daughter of Re, and of Khnum and Satis. Anukis lives in the cataracts of the Lower Nile. Her portrait appears in the Temple of Rameses II at Beit-el-Wali where she suckles the pharoah, suggesting that she is connected with birth and midwifery, but she also demonstrates a malignant aspect as a strangler (see Hathor). Her sacred animal is the gazelle. Depicted anthropomorphically wearing a turban (modius) with ostrich feathers. Also Anuket