Tjenenyet
Tjenenyet is first attested by name on
carved blocks dated to the 12th Dynasty but may have
existed prior to that time.
She was worshipped, along with the goddess Iunit, as joint
consort of the falcon deity Montu in the town of Armant
(Hermonthis) and in the surrounding Theban region. In the
Ramesside Period of the New Kingdom she rose to somewhat
greater importance, but declined in later ancient Egyptian
history. Although sometimes thought to be the same as the
goddess Raet, the association does not seem likely as the
two Egyptian gods are known to have been depicted together.
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