Gods and Goddesses
Middle Eastern
Egyptian
Mehet-Weret (great flood)

TYPE: Minor goddess associated with creation accounts.

ORIGIN: Egyptian

INFORMATION: In some versions of the story she epitomizes the primeval ocean, while in others she is the waterway on which the barque of the sun god Re travels. She is depicted as a cow bearing a sun disc between its horns and lying on papyrus reeds.