Séchat
Séchat (or Seshat ) is in the Egyptian Mythologie the partner or the pupil of Thot Hermopolitain. She is the holder of the knowledge and the writing.
Assistant or partner of Thot, the god of the writings, Seschat whose name means “ the woman scribe ” is the goddess of the writing and annals, the training of the letters, of sciences and mathematics, the owner of the scribes and the schoolboys and the guardian of the royal archives. Its role is to write, calculate, file. Seshat plays a big role in the ceremonies of foundation. It takes care on the libraries of the temples, whose it conceived the ideal plan using the corbel. According to the instructions of Thot, it is it which registers the name of the kings and their years of reign on the tree ished .
On the walls of the temple of Abou Simbel, one sees it a calame in a hand and the cup with ink in the other.
Seshat carries a hairstyle made up of a flower to seven petals, a rivet washer with seven equal branches, surmounted by a reversed arc. It is vêtue of a skin of cat-like, undoubtedly a panther, and holds with the hand a stylet and a stem of papyrus.
All Pharaon before building (or rather inaugurating) a temple must require the agreement of the goddess. Séchat remains however a small divinity.
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