Editing Menhit (section)

== History ==
Believed to have origins as a Nubian goddess, Menhit is always depicted as a lioness with solar disk and a [[uraeus]] symbol.<ref name="Wilkinson 179" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Budge |first=E. A. Wallis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5ZgDwAAQBAJ |title=The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Prayers, Incantations, and Other Texts from the Book of the Dead |date=2018-08-28 |publisher=Crestline Books |isbn=978-0-7603-6443-7 |language=en}}</ref> Coffin texts associate her with being a tutelary and solar deity.<ref name="Wilkinson 179" /> Some sources identify her as the subject of the "Distant Goddess" myth. In one legend, the [[Eye of Ra]] flees from Egypt. Her counterpart, [[Ra]], sends another god to track her down in Nubia, where she transforms into a lioness. When she is returned to Ra, she either becomes or gives birth to Menhit.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Mark |first=Joshua J. |date=2016-04-14 |title=Egyptian Gods - The Complete List |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/article/885/egyptian-gods---the-complete-list/ |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=WorldHistory.org}}</ref>

She also was believed to advance ahead of the Egyptian armies and cut down their enemies with fiery arrows, similar to other war deities.<ref name="hansbonnet"/> She was less known to the people as a crown goddess<ref>{{Cite book |last=Felde |first=Rolf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thZFDwAAQBAJ |title=Gottheiten, Pharaonen und Beamte im alten Ägypten |date=2017-12-29 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7460-4935-9 |pages=34 |language=de}}</ref> and was one of the goddesses who represented the protective [[uraeus]] on royal crowns.<ref name="Wilkinson 179">{{Cite book |last=Wilkinson |first=Richard H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozgBOQAACAAJ |title=The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt |date=2017 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |isbn=978-0-500-28424-7 |pages=179 |language=en}}</ref>