Egyptian mythology
Renenutet
Lady of the Fertile Fields, She Who Nourishes with Her Gaze
- Mythology
- Egyptian mythology
- Group
- Fate · Earth · Protection · Divine · Nature · Fertility · Agriculture
- Appears in
- The Weighing of the Heart
- Places
- Duat
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Renenutet is the cobra goddess of the harvest and of nourishment, who blesses the grain in the fields and the granaries that store it. At a child's birth she is said to whisper its true name and decree its fate, making her a protector of newborns and their hidden souls. Farmers offered her the first fruits of the harvest, and her festival fell at the start of the reaping season. Shown as a rearing cobra or a woman with a serpent's head, she nurses both the living and, in the afterlife, the righteous dead. Her son is the grain god Nepri.
Related figures
Real episode from the app
The Weighing of the Heart
Chapter 1
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Renenutet?
- Renenutet is the cobra goddess of the harvest and of nourishment, who blesses the grain in the fields and the granaries that store it. At a child's birth she is said to whisper its true name and decree its fate, making her a protector of newborns and their hidden souls.
- Which mythology does Renenutet belong to?
- Renenutet belongs to Egyptian mythology.
- Which stories does Renenutet appear in?
- Renenutet appears in The Weighing of the Heart, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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MythologyNow. (2026). Renenutet. https://www.mythologynow.app/en/gods/renenutet"Renenutet." MythologyNow, 2026, https://www.mythologynow.app/en/gods/renenutet.MythologyNow. "Renenutet." Accessed 2026. https://www.mythologynow.app/en/gods/renenutet.Listen to the stories of Renenutet
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