Meskhenet

In ancient Egypt, women delivered babies while squatting on a pair of bricks, known as "birth bricks", and Meskhenet was the goddess associated with this form of delivery. Consequently, in art, she was sometimes depicted as a brick with a woman's head, wearing a cow's uterus upon it. Since she was responsible for creating the Ka, she was associated with fate. Thus later she was sometimes said to be paired with Shai, who became a god of destiny after the deity evolved out of an abstract concept. == Gallery ==

File:Meskhenet.svg|Meskhenet depicted as a birth brick File:Shay egyptian god personification.png|Meskhenet depicted as a birth brick in Weighing of the Heart in the Papyrus of Ani File:JuicioDeLasAlmas.jpg|Meskhenet depicted as a birth brick in a Weighing of the Heart scene painted on a coffin File:Temple of Deir el-Medina 20.JPG|Meskhenet as a birth brick depicted above the scales in a Weighing of the Heart scene in Ptolemaic temple at Deir el-Medina ==See also==