Also rendered: Hwt-Heru, Het-Heru
Greek: Hathor
Titles: "Lady of the Seven", "The Contented One", "The Female Hawk", "Lady of the Sycamore", "Lady of Life", "Foremost of Her Spacious Disk", "Lady of the West", "Mistress of the Throat", "Goddess of Foreign Lands"
Menat counterpoise sometimes was decorated with images of cats.
Hathor-headed sistra associated with Nebethetepet, the creator's hand, started to have cats added as a decorative motif, perhaps evoking sexual and regenerative prowess. (The Cat in Ancient Egypt)
While the body is moulded by Khnum and welded by Ptah, vitality ("neferu") derives from Her, perhaps via nursing.
Menit is a symbol of attracting power. Her power is embodying and intoxicant. Sycamore tree oozes milky white fluid from fruit and leaves, "milk of the sycamore"; tree goddess portrayed pouring fluid into the hands of worshippers. Life of the sun circulates via her, through earth, tree, stone, materials for craftsmen - without the Eye power there is no movement/vitality/radiance, there is inertness, images cannot be vivified. Restores Shu and Tefnut to the creator, allowing them to live.
Attributes include charm (jm3). Her power of attraction binds father to son, mandates the affirmation of connection between the living and the dead. Service requires love. Solar flame: she has the power to channel destruction into the generation of life.
Power of healing: restoration of Heru's eyes as tree goddess. Frees the constricted throat.
Dances were performed for her at the Sed festival. Birth goddess of mysteries (mystery: jtn, likely the same as Aten, jtn). Conveys the secret writings of Djehwty to Heliopolis.
Psychopomp: leads the soul through to dawn. Heart goddess, bringing illumination into the deepest shadows, returns life to the departed, returning it to the cycle. As a day goddess, births the new sun; as a night goddess, the celestial cow restoring life to the darkness. (My Heart My Mother)
Festival of Drunkenness follows on immediately after the Wag-festival marking the regeneration of Wesir as associated with the grapevine; also during inundation.