Egyptian Gods

Menhit known as Menhet or Menkhet was the Goddess of War origin from Nubia. The name Menhit means “the slaughterer” or “the one who sacrifices”. Menhit also known as god of lioness, due to the aggressive characteristic associated to warfare.

Her appearance portrayed as women with head of lion, surmounted by the solar disk and the uraeus.

She was the wife and the female counterpart of Anhur, the foreign war god from Nubia. Sometimes she also associated with Neith, the ancient war goddess, wife of Khnum and mother of Heka in Esna of Upper Egypt.

Menhit center cult at Latopolis in Upper Egypt toward the southern border of Egypt, she was identified with Sekhmet, an ancient Egyptian Goddess of War.