Meti
one of the two hawk-headed gods at the birth of Osiris
Identified
Group: the figures in the scene Budge captions the Birth of Osiris, in the introduction to the Book of Am-Tuat [budge-1905]. The company:
two hawk-headed gods, each with a serpent in his left hand — Tchatui and Meti · a god called Nabti, who holds a crook in each hand · Net (Neith), goddess of the South · Net (Neith), goddess of the North · the goat goddess Artet · and four following gods, Abenti, Sekhet (?), and two lost to the scan.
Two Neiths in one scene, one of the South and one of the North — the same doubling the corpus has recorded for the two jackals (wepwawet and anubis) and for the crowns in the Second Division's lizard boat. A goddess split in two so that the whole country is present.
And Meti holds a serpent in his left hand — the same posture Budge gives to heka in the Osiris assembly at Henen-Su, who "holds a serpent in each hand" (see heptet). A serpent carried, not fought, which the corpus has now met three times.
Under the companies rule (C246) this is a pointer rather than an entry.
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* I, introduction, the scene of **the Birth of Osiris** | the two hawk-headed gods **Tchatui** and **Meti**, "each with **a serpent in his left hand**"; **Nabti** with a crook in each hand; **Neith of the South** and **Neith of the North**; the **goat goddess Artet**; **Abenti**, **Sekhet (?)** |
[budge-1906] | *Egyptian Heaven and Hell* I | the same scene in the parallel scan |
[budge-1895] | *Papyrus of Ani*, **BD ch. CXLVII** | **not this god** — both occurrences are **Meti-heh**, watcher of the **First Arit**, beside Sekhet-hra-asht-aru and Ha-kheru |
Sources
[budge-1905]— Budge, The Book of Am-Tuat (1905), vol. I. Public domain, archived. The scene is described in his introduction rather than in a numbered division, which is why it went unfound in the division-by-division sweeps.[budge-1906]— Budge, The Egyptian Heaven and Hell (1906), vol. I. Public domain, archived.[budge-1895]— Budge, The Papyrus of Ani. Public domain, archived. Both hits read 2026-07-30 and both are Meti-heh, not Meti — see below.
Open questions
- ~~Read the two Ani occurrences.~~ Closed 2026-07-30. Both are Meti-heh, and he is a
- Budge prints the name with a query — "Meti-heh (?)" — so even he was unsure of the reading.
- A four-letter prefix matched a name four letters longer (C169's lesson, one step further on:
- What is the Birth of Osiris scene? Budge captions it and the corpus has not worked it. It sits in the introduction, outside the twelve divisions, and none of its figures except Neith is in the census (C397).
- Tchatui is his pair and is not in the census. Nor are Nabti, Artet the goat goddess, or Abenti.
- A serpent in the left hand. Meti, Tchatui and heka all carry one. Worth collecting the serpent-bearers — this corpus tracks serpents as enemies far more thoroughly than as equipment.
- Two Neiths. Establish whether the South/North doubling is standard for her or particular to this scene.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ⇄duplicate — A second spelling or roster listing of a name entered elsewhere.
"Meti", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded duplicate, retrieved 2026-08-10.