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	Egypt: Meretseger, Goddess of Punishment and Mercy, Protectress of the Necropolis Under the Peak of the West
		Meretseger (Mertseger, Merseger, Mereseger) was the ancient Egyptian goddess of the necropolis at Waset (Thebes).
		Meretseger was generally shown as a coiled cobra, or as a cobra with a woman's head.
		Meretseger was a goddess who struck fear into the hearts of the people of Waset, yet she was also a forgiving deity.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/meretseger.htm (922 words)

	Meretseger
		Meretseger (Mertseger, Merseger, Mereseger) was the goddess of the necropolis at Waset (Thebes).
		Her worship was popular in Thebes and Deir el Medina (the workman's village near the Valley of the Kings) during the New Kingdom and a small temple to Ptah and Meretseger was built near by.
		Meretseger was usually depicted as a cobra or a cobra with the head of a woman, although sometimes she takes the form of a snake with three heads (a woman, a cobra and a vulture).
	www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk /meretseger.html (392 words)

	Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Meretseger
		Meretseger was the goddess of the Valley of the Kings, the famous necropolis outside of Thebes.
		For the tomb builders living in their village, now known as Deir el-Medina, Meretseger was a dangerous, yet merciful, goddess who would punish sinners and liars with blindness and snakebites.
		Meretseger was portrayed as a coiled snake, or as a cobra-headed woman.
	www.egyptianmyths.net /meretseger.htm (183 words)

	Feline Deities
		Meretseger was supposed to inhabit a mountain that overlooked the Valley of the Kings in western Thebes, which is known as Dehenet Imentet, or 'the peak of the west', an epithet which she shared.
		In her snake aspect, Meretseger is generally depicted as a coiled cobra, although she can also be shown as a cobra with a woman's head, which has a human arm sticking out from the front of its hood.
		Meretseger's name means 'she who loves silence', which seems apt for a goddess who presides over a typically quiet area - the tombs of the dead.
	www.ladyoftheflame.co.uk /Deities.htm (12588 words)

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		Meretseger replies dryly, "Jokes that make little sense is a thing I expect more of Ragabashes, yes." She tilts her head to regard the new arrivals.
		Meretseger tilts her head at the Garou who shifts to the war form, regarding him rather obviously from behind her mirrorshades.
		Meretseger shifts her weight slightly from one boot to the other, her narrow expression still stony.
	www.bastet.org /~alix/Logs/1996/cub.aug08.txt (3291 words)

	Deir el-Madinah - OnlineEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These included the famous tombs of Tutankhamen and Nefertari, and the memorial temples of Ramses II, Amenhotep III, and Hatshepsut – all of which, in their various states of preservation, can still be seen today.
		The patron of the village was the cobra-goddess Meretseger, who was said to dwell atop the pyramid-shaped mountain al-Qurn that stands between Deir al-Madinah and the Valley of the Kings.
		Other deities worshipped in the settlement included Maat, goddess of justice and balance, Thoth, the protector of scribes and painters, and Chnum, the ram-headed god of potters and sculptors.
	www.neareasternarchaeology.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Deir_el-Madinah (462 words)

	Unto The 500th Generation Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Neferura Meretseger watched, in approval, as a tray for her was filled and placed in the ablutions room.
		Neferura Meretseger jumped onto the edge of the basket, allowing her weight to overturn it, and then retreated to the far side of the sleeping platform as a new wave of stink pulsated across the room.
		Neferura Meretseger was peacefully sitting on the radiator watching the priest at the computer - wondering if she should start a Rite of Combining, but disinclined to move from the warm position - when the outer portal chimed indicating the arrival of a postulant or the High Priestess.
	www.ylla.co.uk /fic/500th2.html (2997 words)

	Meretseger
		Meretseger was especially revered by the inhabitants of Deir el-Medina who were responsible for building the royal tombs.
		The "Lady of the Peak", as they called her, was believed to strike at workers who committed crimes.
		If the victim repented of his or her actions the goddess was merciful and would heal the wound she had inflicted.
	www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/m/meretseger.html (121 words)

	SG-1 - Home, Sweet Home
		Meretseger was whispering sweet nothings in Backley's ear as though it were a standard part of every interstellar treaty negotiation.
		Keyes held a zat gun, and he and Meretseger had been watching as the Jaffa took a grip on Walter's head and held it to her belly.
		Of those in the room, Meretseger was first to react, raising her hand to aim a ribbon device at the doorway.
	www.prophet.phlegethon.org /Fiction/Home/hsh3.htm (5020 words)

	Meretseger
		In Egyptian mythology, Meretseger ("she who loves silence") was a cobra-goddess, the personification of the mountain which overlooked the Valley of the Kings, where the Pharaohs' tombs were located.
		She spat poison at anyone who tried to vandalize or rob the royal tombs.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Meretseger.html (84 words)

	Unto The 500th Generation Part 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although being disturbed was annoying she appreciated his motives, and decided that it was good for a priest to be a trifle over zealous in the wake of her recent experiences with heathen.
		As soon as they were within the portals of the temple, Neferura Meretseger expressed her desire to examine the precincts more closely, and her High Priestess put down the travelling carriage and undid the doors.
		Neferura Meretseger knew that this was because it was now her task to make a firm decision on which ones would enter her ministry.
	www.ylla.co.uk /fic/500th3.html (2730 words)

	THEBES PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT - 0981_32 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eastward view of the rock-cut sanctuary dating to the 12th century B.C. The form of Ptah worshipped here was "Ptah of the Valley of the Queens," a protector of the tombs in that valley.
		Meretseger, ("She who Loves Silence"), was the protective goddess of all Western Thebes in the New Kingdom.
		This sanctuary is located south of the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina on the path to the Valley of the Queens.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/TVE_TPP/0981_32.html (128 words)

	Operation Scorpion: Your online resource
		The ancient Egyptians also believed in a scorpion goddess with a woman's head, Meretseger.
		Meretseger would spit venom at anyone who tried to disturb a pharao's tomb.
		But if the victim felt sorry for what she had done, Meretseger would quickly heal the wound.
	library.thinkquest.org /27858/myths&legends.htm (871 words)

	Gods and Goddesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meretseger was the ancient Egyptian goddess of the necropolis at Thebes.
		At times she was known as her dwelling place - 'The Peak of the West', and she became the personification of the peak.
		Meretseger was a goddess of protection, guarding the tombs in the Valley of the Kings from the heights of the mountain that overlooked the royal necropolis.
	www.polarisbear.clara.co.uk /meretseger.html (442 words)

	The Scroll of Atankharzim
		The GVB Meretseger class has been designed for surgical strikes against hostile targets.
		Following Terran precedent, the Meretseger has relatively small secondary banks but large afterburner reserves to quickly disarm and disable enemy capital ships.
		Meretseger bombers are often deployed in conjunction with heavier bombers, such as the Maahes, to cripple the enemy so the heavier bombs can find their target.
	www.3dactionplanet.com /hlp/hosted/scroll/techdbase.html (893 words)

	Egyptian gods: Meretseger, Mertseger, Mereseger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meretseger (Mert-, Mere-) "She who loves silence" was protector of the necropolis at Thebes in Upper Egypt.
		She was a serpent with a woman's face or a woman with a face of a standing cobra or a single scorpion with a woman's head like the goddess Selkhet.
		Her name was in hieroglyphs written by a single letter - a picture of a snake.
	www.nemo.nu /ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/gudasidor/meretseger.htm (130 words)

	EgyptSites - Ptah & Meretseger
		The cobra-goddess Meretseger, sometimes identified as a form of Hathor or 'Goddess of the West', was a favourite among the workmen.
		The sanctuary of Ptah and Meretseger appears to have been begun at the beginning of Dynasty XX, but fragments found there from Dynasty XIX suggest that it may have been used from an earlier date.
		On one of the badly eroded walls is a large shallow relief of the goddess Meretseger with the head of a cobra.
	www.egyptsites.co.uk /upper/luxorwest/other/meretseger.html (590 words)

	Historical Development of the Valley of the Kings in the New Kingdom - Theban Mapping Project
		The high point of the Theban Hills, al Qurn, whose ancient name was ta dehent "the peak," has an almost pyramidal shape when viewed from the entrance to the valley, and therefore some Egyptologists believe it must have inspired the selection [11452].
		There are also indications that Hathor was associated with this area and that the serpent goddess Meretseger, "She who loves Silence," was connected with the mountain as a protector of the necropolis [16457].
		We know that Thutmes I was one of the first to cut his tomb in the East Valley of the Kings.
	www.thebanmappingproject.com /articles/article_2.3.html (962 words)

	Valley of the Kings - Theban Mapping Project
		The local limestone, cut millions of years ago by torrential rains to form the Valley, is of good quality.
		And towering above the Valley is a mountain, al Qurn ("the horn" in Arabic), whose shape may have reminded the ancient Egyptians of a pyramid, and is dedicated to the goddess Meretseger.
		There are 62 numbered royal and private tombs in the Valley of the Kings, ranging from a simple pit (KV 54) to a tomb with over 121 chambers and corridors (KV 5).
	www.thebanmappingproject.com /sites/browse_tomb_450.html (1219 words)

	Meretseger - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In Egyptian mythology, Meretseger (she who loves silence) was a cobra-goddess, who was originally a personification of the dangers of the desert.
		Since the first syllable of her name is the same as that in the word pyramid, it became thought that she lived on top of (or was) the pyramid-shaped mountain which overlooked the Valley of the Kings, where the Pharaohs' tombs were located.
		This page was last modified 16:24, 19 Jun 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Meretseger (208 words)

	SG-1 - Home, Sweet Home
		The former General Keyes descended the stairs from the plane with Meretseger and Nefera at his heels, to be met by Henry and Lieutenant Carlson.
		Gratefully, the tired soldiers surrendered their posts to Monroe's guards, and when they were gone, the General's eyes lit with the Goa'uld fire.
		Meretseger leaned towards Keyes, drawn, moth-like, to the power that radiated from him.
	www.prophet.phlegethon.org /Fiction/Home/hsh4.htm (3902 words)

	Nebenmaat tombe Egypte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tournée vers la droite, " la maîtresse de maison, Meretseger, justifiée ", les cheveux en désordre sur les épaules, mène le concert des lamentations de quatre pleureuses qui poussent des plaintes funèbres.
		Pour l'occasion, le défunt est accompagne de son épouse, mais en fait, on constate que Meretseger conduisait, dans les registres précédents, le deuil de son époux.
		Après Nebenmaat, Meretseger s'adresse à l'un des quatre fils d'Horus, Hâpy, à tête de cynocéphale.
	www.osirisnet.net /tombes/artisans/neben/neben.htm (1927 words)

	Lady of the West
		Because of Her aspect as a funerary goddess, She was especially venerated in the Theban necropolis and was associated there with two local goddesses, Meretseger and Amentet.
		Meretseger ("She who loves silence") is a cobra-goddess Who is also personified by the pyramid-shaped mountain which overlooks the Theban necropolis.
		In the vignette above from the Book of Coming Forth by Day of the Papyrus of Ani, Het-Hert is shown emerging from this mountain amidst a thicket of papyrus.
	www.hethert.org /ladyofthewest.html (876 words)

	Answering Critics
		Nefertiry was the maternal granddaughter of the high priest Bakenkhons and his wife Meretseger.
		Therefore her brother, mayor Amenmose, must be a grandson of Bakenkhons and Meretseger.
		The name Meretseger was found in the tomb of Ramses II and this Bakenkhons must be the celebrated high priest Bakenkhons of Ramses II.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /workmensvillage_and_revision.html (7642 words)

	L'Egypte Eternelle - Double statue d'Amenhotep Deux et de la déesse Meretseger
		Double statue d'Amenhotep Deux et de la déesse Meretseger
		A propos de Double statue d'Amenhotep Deux et de la déesse Meretseger
		Le roi Amenhotep Deux voulait une statue qui le représentait sous la protection de la déesse cobra Meretseger.
	www.eternalegypt.org /EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?element_id=61419&ee_website_action_key=action.display.element&story_id=&module_id=&language_id=2&text=text&page.refresh=Y (164 words)

	DEIR EL-MEDINA
		A number of different divinities were worshipped by the inhabitants of Deir el-Medina.
		Some chapels and sanctuaries have been discovered in and around the village which were dedicated to different gods and goddesses, such as, Hathor, Amen, Ptah, who was the patron of craftsmen, and Meretseger, the goddess who protected the necropolis of Thebes.
		The pharaoh Amenhotep I and his mother, Ahmose-Nefertari, were also worshipped by the people of Deir el-Medina, who saw them as patrons of the village.
	gtae.users.btopenworld.com /DeirElMedina.htm (491 words)

	Meretseger Pharaoh Egyptian mythology mountain goddess Valley of the Kings cobra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meretseger Pharaoh Egyptian mythology mountain goddess Valley of the Kings cobra
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	en.powerwissen.com /yt%2BqGXjskyFBRSD64eUt%2Bg%3D%3D_Meretseger.html (165 words)

	Meretseger - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Meretseger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Here you will find more informations about Meretseger.
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		She was also the patron deity of the many workers who built these tombs, and punished those workers who committed crimes.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Meretseger.html (104 words)

	The Valley of the Kings
		Imeni found the ideal spot: a set of steep and narrow limestone valleys well hidden in the hills on the West Bank of the River Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor) For much of the length of these valleys the sides are high and vertical or near-vertical cliffs.
		At the end of these valleys was a pyramid-shaped mountain called Meretseger, which means She who loves peace and tranquillity.
		Tuthmosis decided that this was where he would make his tomb, a series of underground chambers carved out of the solid rock.
	www.barrygray.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Egypt/KV.html (1335 words)

	[ELFWOOD] SF&F Art / N. Schlaudecker / 'Keeper of Souls' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a self-portrait that I did...okay, so I put my face on the body.
		This is Meretseger, in her protective role of Guardian of the dead.
		She holds a baby in one arm, and a shining spirit in her other hand.
	elfwood.lysator.liu.se /art/s/c/schlaudecker/meretseger.jpg.html (404 words)

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