Also called Uto, Edjo, Buto (her city), the Green One.
Their story
Wadjet was the goddess of Per-Wadjet, called Buto by the Greeks, in the northern Delta. As the rearing cobra, the uraeus, she sat on the brow of the king and was believed to spit fire at his enemies. With the vulture Nekhbet she formed the Two Ladies, the protectors of the two halves of the kingdom named in the royal titulary. Herodotus describes a famous oracle at Buto, whose goddess the Greeks equated with Leto.
Best times to give to them
- Wepet Renpet
- dawn
What they like being given
- water
- green plants or papyrus
- incense
- bread
How to honour them
- Ask her to guard you, as the cobra on the royal brow guarded the king.
- Keep green plants on your shrine in her honour.
How they can help you
- protection
- confidence
- guarding boundaries
Symbols
- rearing cobra (uraeus)
- Red Crown
- papyrus
- green colour
Sources
- Pyramid Texts
- Herodotus, Histories 2.155-156
- Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
More Egyptian goddesses
- Isis Great of Magic, mother of Horus
- Bastet Protector of the home, lady of joy
- Hathor The Golden One, lady of love and music
- Sekhmet The Powerful One, healer and protector
- Maat Truth, balance and right order
- Nephthys Lady of the House, comforter of the grieving
- Taweret The Great One, guardian of mothers
- Amunet The hidden goddess of the primordial eight