What's This?
These pages introduce the ancient Egyptian goddess Seshat, using a combination of historical research, Kemetic Orthodox beliefs and personal experience.

Who is Seshat?
Seshat is usually described as the goddess of scribes, record keeping, measurement and libraries. That's not a bad place to start, but as these pages will show, more recent research and the Kemetic Orthodox faith have other things to say.

Kemetic Orthodoxy
Introducing the Kemetic Orthodox faith is beyond the scope of this site -- you may want to check out kemet.org and the House of Netjer websites.

A key tenet of Kemetic Orthodoxy is that God is both one and many. The literally thousands of gods worshipped in Ancient Egypt are "Names of Netjer," the one divine power. This is important to remember when considering the relationships between deities, and between deities and their titles.

This site uses the Kemetic Orthodox standard spellings for the names of deities. Where it might be confusing, I'll note the Greco-Roman names that may be more familiar to most people.

About the Author
I am Rev. Dave Dean, known in the House of Netjer as Imakhu Seshagemseger Ankhkaseshat (Imakhu Sesha). I was divined as belonging to Seshat in 1998, and wrote the first version of this article in August 1999 (with considerably less information to work with). I am a Hem-Netjer priest of Seshat, and assistant scribe to Her Holiness Hekatawy I (AUS).

Images
The leopard skin background is a modified version of the one freely distriubted at leopardskin.net.

The image of Seshat that appears in the upper right corner was drawn for me by Rev. Stephanie Cass (Kai-Imakhu Merybast) specifically for this site. If you want to use it on your site, please write me for permission.