Huntheth
third of the four lioness-headed goddesses of the Tenth Division
What is claimed
The census carries this name with the following description, taken verbatim from the aggregate list it was extracted from:
A Lioness goddess
Source grading in that list: Minor deities / Goddesses.
And for once the aggregate list is exactly right. She is lioness-headed, and the archive says so — which is worth recording, because the corpus has spent many batches finding census descriptions that were unattested, unconfirmable, or wrong. This one lands.
Identified
Group: the eight goddesses of the Tenth Division of the Am-Tuat — third of the four lioness-headed. Budge's set: Sekhet, Menkert, Huntheth, Usrit (lioness-headed); Abet-neteru-s, Arit-Tatheth, Ahat, Themath-ermen (?) (woman-headed) [budge-1905]. The eight are described in one clause: they are "the goddesses who make the reckoning of his Eye for Horus."
Under the companies rule (C246) this is a pointer rather than an entry: the source names the member and describes only the set she belongs to. See the Tenth Division.
Her two sisters in the same rank of eight — usit and themath — were closed the same day and from the same passage. Three census stubs, one paragraph (C362).
The record
Every claim above traces to a row here. Source, exact place in that source, and what it actually supports.
| Source | Locus | Attests |
|---|---|---|
[budge-1905] | *Book of Am-Tuat*, Tenth Division, pp. 219–221 | **Huntheth**, third of the lioness-headed four; the ape-god **Af(?)-ermen-maat-f**; the serpent holding the **utchat**; "the goddesses who make the reckoning of his Eye for Horus" |
[budge-1904] | *Gods of the Egyptians* I, the Tenth Hour, p. 248 | the same eight, **Huntheth** spelled identically in both books |
Sources
[budge-1905]— Budge, The Book of Am-Tuat (1905), vol. I. Public domain, archived.[budge-1904]— Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians (1904), vol. I. Public domain, archived. Unlike Usrit/Usit and Themath, her name is spelled the same in both — which is why triage could find her and not them.
Open questions
- The lioness head. Four lioness-headed goddesses in one register, the first of them named Sekhet — which is Budge's spelling of Sekhmet. Establish whether the rank is four aspects of one lioness or four separate beings.
- What is "the reckoning of the Eye"? See the Tenth Division; it is the open question for all eight.
- Does she appear anywhere else? If not, ⧉ roster is her permanent grade.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ⇄duplicate — A second spelling or roster listing of a name entered elsewhere.
"Huntheth", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded duplicate, retrieved 2026-08-10.