Seshat facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Seshat
Seshat, depicted in a leopard skin, inscribing the years of reign for the king on the palm-leaf rib which served for tallying up the years and so had become the hieroglyph for "year".
Name in hieroglyphs
Symbol	leopard skin, tablet, star, stylus
Consort	Thoth (in some accounts)
Parents	Thoth and Maat

Seshat and Thoth

Seshat was the ancient Egyptian idea of knowledge, shown as a goddess. She became the goddess of writing, astronomy/astrology, architecture, and mathematics. When Thoth became the god of wisdom, Seshat was seen as his daughter, or sometimes, as his wife. In art, she was shown as a woman with a stylised papyrus plant above her head. This symbolised writing since the Egyptians wrote on a material that came from papyrus.

Images for kids

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  Hatshepsut and Seshat, from the Red Chapel

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  Goddess Seshat, ca. 1919-1875 B.C.E., 52.129 Brooklyn Museum

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  Seshat carved on the back of the throne of the seated statue of Rameses II in the Amun temple at Luxor. It dates from around 1250 BCE.

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  Seshat. Same carving, full length

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  Seshat, at the Karnak Temple Complex