its incredably simple, dunno why it took me so damn long... Im feeling rather significantly brain dammaged.
tet is used to denote 'female' in a name.
The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians
by W.F. Petrie
copyrite 1912 something.
"Sekhmet is the lion goddess, who represents
the fierceness of the sun's heat. She appears
in the myth of the destruction of mankind as
slaughtering the enemies of Ra. Her only form
is that with the head of a lioness. But she
blends imperceptibly with
Bastet, who has the head of a cat. She was
the goddess of Pa-bast or Bubastis, and in her
honour immense festivals were there held. Her
name is found in the beginning of the pyramid
times; but her main period of popularity was
that of the Shishaks who ruled from Bubastis,
and in the later times images of her were very
frequent as amulets. It is possible from the
name that this feline goddess, whose foreign
origin is acknowledged, was the female form of
the god Bes, who is dressed in a lion's skin, and
also came in from the east."
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