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 | | Lower and upper Egypt both already had a patron deity – Wadjet and Nekhbet respectively, indeed they also had lioness protector deities – Bast and Sekhmet respectively, and consequently, as Thebes rose to even greater prominence, so these goddesses were absorbed by Mut in turn. |
 | | First, Mut became Mut-Wadjet-Bast, then Mut-Sekhmet-Bast (Wadjet having merged into Bast), then Mut also assimilated Menhit, who was also a lioness goddess, and her adopted son's wife, becoming Mut-Sekhmet-Bast-Menhit, and finally becoming Mut-Nekhbet. |
 | | The authority of Thebes later waned, and Amun was assimilated into Ra, Mut, the doting virgin mother, was assimilated into Ra's wife, Hathor, the lusty cow-goddess and mother of Horus. |
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