Editing Satis (goddess) (section)

==History==
A goddess of the [[Upper Egypt]]ians,{{sfnp|Wilkinson|2003|p=164}} her cult is first attested on jars beneath the [[Pyramid of Djoser|Step Pyramid]] of [[Saqqara]] ([[Dynasty III]]).{{sfnp|Wilkinson|2003|p=165}} She appears in the [[Pyramid Texts]] ([[Dynasty VI]]) purifying a deceased pharaoh's body with four jars of water from [[Elephantine]].{{sfnp|Wilkinson|2003|p=165}}

Her principal center of worship was at Abu ([[Elephantine]]),{{sfnp|Wilkinson|2003|p=165}} an island in [[Aswan]] on the southern edge of Egypt. [[Temple of Satet|Her temple there]] occupied an early [[predynastic]] site shown by [[Ronald Wells|Wells]] to be aligned with the star [[Sirius]].{{sfnp|Wilkinson|2003|p=166}} Other centers include Swenet ([[Aswan]] proper) and Setet ([[Sehel Island]] nearby). She was particularly associated with the upper reaches of the Nile,{{sfnp|Wilkinson|2003|p=164}} which the Egyptians sometimes considered to have its source near Aswan.{{sfnp|Wilkinson|2003|p=165}} She is invoked in Aramaic as ''Sati'' on a divorce document in the [[Elephantine papyri]].