Editing Renpet

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{{Infobox deity
| type = Egyptian
| name = Renpet
| hiero = <hiero>M5</hiero>
| image = Renpet.svg
| caption = the goddess Renpet
}}
'''Renpet''' was, in the [[Egyptian language]], the word for "year".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XaHr38i0zR0C&q=Renpet&pg=PA206|title=The Legacy of Tutankhamun Art and History|last=Zaki|first=Mey|date=2008|publisher=American Univ in Cairo Press|isbn=9789771749301|language=en}}</ref> Its hieroglyph was figuratively depicted in [[art]] as a woman wearing a [[Palm tree|palm]] shoot (symbolizing [[time]]) over her head.<ref>{{citation |last=Wilkinson |first=Richard H. |author-link=Richard H. Wilkinson |title=The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |year=2003 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/completegodsgodd00wilk_0/page/164 164–6] |isbn=0-500-05120-8 |contribution=Renpet |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/completegodsgodd00wilk_0/page/164 }}</ref> She was often referred to as the ''Mistress of [[Eternity]]'' and also personified fertility, youth and [[spring (season)|spring]]. The glyph regularly appears on monuments and documents throughout Egyptian history as the beginning of the phrase recording the regnal year of the pharaoh.
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==See also==
* [[Palm branch]]
* [[Heh (god)]]
* [[Seshat]]
* [[Renpetneferet]]

==References==
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[[Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs]]
[[Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: trees and plants]]
[[Category:Fertility goddesses]]
[[Category:Egyptian goddesses]]


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