Hert-ketit-s

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Classification lead. The description supplied by the aggregate list would make this an underworld being. If that is right, the place to look is the Amduat and the Book of Gates name lists [budge-1905], data/amduat-hours.json.

What would settle any of the above: the Amduat and Book of Gates rosters [budge-1905], the Book of the Dead spell list [budge-1901], and — decisively — a search of Leitz's Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen [lgg], which indexes divine names and epithets on a scale nothing else approaches.

Group: the Companies of the Eleventh Division — she is "she who is over" the pit Hatet-ketits, in which "the enemies" are consumed; she is lioness-headed. Every such goddess in that register "holds in her hands a large knife, and pours fire into it from her mouth" [budge-1905].

Under the companies rule (C246) she gets this pointer rather than an individual entry: the sources describe all the pit-goddesses identically and distinguish them only by which fire they stand over. That distinction is on the group page, where it can be seen alongside the others.