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Princess Anuket of Egypt was the daughter of Pharaoh Rameses III. She traveled to Greece to find Hercules in hopes that he would help her locate the missing Mummy of her ancestor Ishtar. The fact that Anuket kept slaves clashed with Hercules's ideals. He eventually brought her to understand that slavery was wrong and she granted her head slave Keb freedom as he was dying. Anuket used the Ankh that had been buried with Ishtar to help Hercules defeat the Mummy.

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  • Anuket
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  • Princess Anuket of Egypt was the daughter of Pharaoh Rameses III. She traveled to Greece to find Hercules in hopes that he would help her locate the missing Mummy of her ancestor Ishtar. The fact that Anuket kept slaves clashed with Hercules's ideals. He eventually brought her to understand that slavery was wrong and she granted her head slave Keb freedom as he was dying. Anuket used the Ankh that had been buried with Ishtar to help Hercules defeat the Mummy.
  • Her mother was considered the goddess Satis, a southern war and fertility deity who was the personification of the flooding of the Nile. Satis and the god Khnum, the guardian of the source of the river, became thought of as the complementary deities of the source of the Nile in the Elephantine region, so Anuket, as the river herself, became viewed as their daughter in a triad for that region.
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Series
  • Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Appearance
  • "Mummy Dearest"
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  • a:n-q:t-B1
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Name
  • Anuket
God of
  • Goddess of the river
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Character Name
  • Anuket
Siblings
  • presumably Heka
Symbol
  • the river reeds,
Affiliations
Cult Center
  • Elephantine
Parents
  • Khnum and Satis
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  • Her mother was considered the goddess Satis, a southern war and fertility deity who was the personification of the flooding of the Nile. Satis and the god Khnum, the guardian of the source of the river, became thought of as the complementary deities of the source of the Nile in the Elephantine region, so Anuket, as the river herself, became viewed as their daughter in a triad for that region. Being the deification of the Nile herself also lead to the two tributaries of the Nile being considered the arms of Anuket. Using symbols originating with her mother, she became associated with the fast moving things to represent the river's flow, such as arrows and the gazelle, an antelope with a large presence at the banks of the Nile in this region. Thus in art, Anuket often was depicted as a gazelle, or with a gazelle's head, sometimes having a headdress of feathers (thought by most Egyptologists to be a detail deriving from Nubia). Ceremonially, when the Nile started its annual flood, the Festival of Anuket began. People threw coins, gold, jewelry, and precious gifts into the river, in thanks for the life-giving water and returning benefits derived from the wealth provided by her fertility to the goddess. The taboo held in several parts of Egypt, against eating certain fish which were considered sacred, was lifted during this time, suggesting that a fish species of the Nile was a totem for Anuket and that they were consumed as part of the ritual of her major religious festival.
  • Princess Anuket of Egypt was the daughter of Pharaoh Rameses III. She traveled to Greece to find Hercules in hopes that he would help her locate the missing Mummy of her ancestor Ishtar. The fact that Anuket kept slaves clashed with Hercules's ideals. He eventually brought her to understand that slavery was wrong and she granted her head slave Keb freedom as he was dying. Anuket used the Ankh that had been buried with Ishtar to help Hercules defeat the Mummy.
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