Repyt
one of the goddesses Hathor absorbed, city by city
Identified
Group: the goddesses Hathor was identified with, listed city by city [budge-1904]. Repit stands in the group given with Iusaset, Nebt-hetep and Neserit — the Heliopolitan cluster — inside a much longer survey that runs: with Isis in Canopus; with Uatchet in Buto; with Tefnut in Pa-Tem (Pithom); with Tatet or Tait in Busiris; with Khuit in Athribis; with Tetet, daughter of Ra, and Tefnut in lion form, and Hert, and Nesert, with Iusaset and Nebt-hetep and Neserit and Repit; with Khent-Abtet in Sele (?); with Nehemauait, Tefnut and Isis in Hermopolis; with Hat-Mehit in Mendes; with Mut, Tefnut and Khent-Abtet in Diospolis; with Bast in Bubastis; with Isis and Uatchet in Ammet; and with Septit and Khekhsit in the nome of Sept.
Budge's conclusion from the list: "It is, then, quite certain that in late dynastic times, at least, Hathor became the representative" [of the goddesses of Egypt generally].
Under the companies rule (C246) this is a pointer rather than an entry.
What the list actually shows
This is not a roster of colleagues. It is a record of absorption, and it is one of the most useful single passages in the archive for understanding how Egyptian goddesses relate to each other.
Some fifteen towns, each with its own goddess, and in each one Hathor is declared to be her. The same move the corpus has documented at Mendes with hatmehit, and at Herakleopolis with heryshaf — except here it is not a takeover by one god of one city, it is a national consolidation performed fifteen times in a paragraph.
Repit is one of the fifteen-odd, and the honest thing to say about her is that she appears in this corpus only as a name Hathor was given somewhere. That is a real datum about the late period and almost nothing about Repit.
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-1904] | *Gods of the Egyptians* I, on Hathor's local identifications | **Repit** among the goddesses Hathor was identified with, in the group beside **Iusaset, Nebt-hetep and Neserit** |
[budge-1904] | *ibid.* | the full city-by-city list, and Budge's conclusion that Hathor "became the representative" of the goddesses in late dynastic times |
Sources
[budge-1904]— Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians (1904), vol. I. Public domain, archived. A transcribed list, which is Budge at his most dependable — though the conclusion he draws from it is his own.
Open questions
- Which city is Repit's? The list is organised by town and the OCR runs several entries together at exactly this point. Her city is in the sentence and is not currently recoverable. Re-read the page against a cleaner scan.
- Repit / Repyt is usually placed at Athribis in modern accounts, as the lioness consort of Min. None of that is in this archive — and note that Budge's list gives Khuit for Athribis, not Repit. Recorded as unconfirmed, and mildly contradicted.
- The other names in her cluster. Neserit, Hert, Tetet daughter of Ra, Khuit, Tatet/Tait, Nehemauait, Khekhsit, Septit — check every one against the census. This single passage may close several stubs at once (C362, C393), and it is the same method that closed six names last batch.
- Is this list Budge's or his source's? He cites nobody for it. A list of fifteen local identifications is either from a text or assembled by him, and which one it is changes what it is worth.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ⇄duplicate — A second spelling or roster listing of a name entered elsewhere.
"Repyt", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded duplicate, retrieved 2026-08-10.