TYPE: Frog goddess concerned with birth
ORIGIN: Egyptian
INFORMATION: Minor deity who by some traditions is the consort of Haroeris (see also Horus). Texts refer to a major sanctuary at Tuna et-Gebel which has been totally obliterated. The remains of another sanctuary survive at Qus in Upper Egypt. In the Pyramid Texts she is referred to as a deity who eases the final stages of labor. Depicted wholly frog-like or as a frog-headed human figure, ofter found on amulets or other magical devices associated with childbirth.