Qetesh

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Qetesh
In Egyptian mythology and Canaanite religion, Qetesh (also Qadesh, Kadesh, Qatesh, Qadeshet, Qudshu, Quodesh) referred to a Goddess or Goddesses of Love and Beauty (rather than fertility), who is thought to have originally been a Semitic divinity, from Canaanite religion, adopted into the Egyptian  at a later date. Her husband may have been the god Resheph, identified with Nergal in Chaldean mythology, who was introduced in the Middle Kingdom. Having been adopted into Egyptian belief, it was decided that Qetesh, as the goddess of sex, should be the mother of Min, the god of fertility and thus sexual prowess. Although, for obvious reasons, she was a popular goddess, she eventually became considered an aspect of Hathor, who had by that time become a goddess of pleasure.
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Qetesh
[Egyptian] Originally a Syrian goddess who was later she worshipped in Egypt as a goddess of love. Possibly she is one of the forms of the mother-goddess Hathor.


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