Sehith
fourth of the four throneless goddesses of the Sixth Division
Identified
Group: the figures of the Sixth Division of the Am-Tuat, called Metchet-mu-nebt-Tuat [budge-1905]. Budge walks the register in order:
1. Hem, crocodile-headed, seated but without a throne · 2. Em-nu-ur, ape-headed · 3. Ani · 4. Hem · 5. Netch-atef · 6. Ankh-hra · 7. Met-hra · 8. Netchti · 9–12. Four goddesses, each in a seated position but without a throne: Antheth, Henhenith, Hemt, and Sehith.
"Seated, but without a throne" is stated twice in the same passage and is clearly meant. Elsewhere in the Am-Tuat gods sit on thrones, on serpents, on looms, on the stiffened tail of a snake. This register's twelve sit on nothing at all, and Budge records the absence as a feature rather than skipping it.
Under the companies rule (C246) this is a pointer rather than an entry. Found by locating the name and reading the register (C393).
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, **Sixth Division (Metchet-mu-nebt-Tuat)**, pp. 132–133 | **Sehith**, last of four goddesses "each in a seated position, but **without a throne**," with **Antheth, Henhenith and Hemt**; the eight gods before them, two of them **crocodile-headed** and one **ape-headed** |
[budge-1906] | *Egyptian Heaven and Hell* I | the same passage in a second scan, **Sehith** spelled identically |
Sources
[budge-1905]— Budge, The Book of Am-Tuat (1905), vol. I. Public domain, archived.[budge-1906]— Budge, The Egyptian Heaven and Hell (1906), vol. I, alternative scan. Public domain, archived. Independently confirms the reading.
Open questions
- Read the text that follows the roster. Budge prints "The text which refers to these reads:" and then a block the OCR renders as hieroglyph rubble. In these divisions that text is always the part that says what the figures are for — see the Ninth, where it turns twelve seated figures into the wrappings of Osiris.
- Why no thrones? Stated twice for this register and not explained. Check whether throneless seating recurs elsewhere in the twelve divisions — the corpus already tracks the reversed-head posture across divisions (C299, C318) and this is the same kind of question.
- Antheth, Henhenith, Hemt — her three companions — are not in the census (C397).
- Two gods named Hem appear in the same register, at positions 1 and 4. Scribal duplication, or two beings? Budge does not remark on it.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ⇄duplicate — A second spelling or roster listing of a name entered elsewhere.
"Sehith", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded duplicate, retrieved 2026-08-10.