Seshat is the Ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing.
She was the daughter of Nut and Geb, her siblings included Osiris, Isis and Seth.
In Ancient Egyptian folklore there are confusing accounts as to whether Thoth was her brother or her husband...
She is seen as a scribe and record keeper, and her name means she who scrivens (i.e. she who is the scribe), and is credited with inventing writing. She also became identified as the goddess of architecture, astronomy, astrology, building, mathematics, and surveying...
Mistress of the House of Books is another title for Seshat, being the goddess whose priests oversaw the library in which scrolls of the most important knowledge was assembled and spells were preserved.
Usually, she is also shown holding a palm stem, carrying notches to denote the recording of the passage of time.On her head she wears her headress which resembles a star or flower atop a pole or a bow...
She is frequently dressed in a leopard-skin, a symbol of funerary priests, because the pattern of the skin represents the stars, both a symbol of eternity, and associated with the moon. In this context, she seemed to have associations with Anubis...
Seshat assisted the pharaoh in the stretching the cord ritual.
This ritual is related to laying out the foundations of temples and other important structures in order to determine and assure the sacred alignments and the precision of the dimensions...
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