Introduction
Meskhenet is the goddess of childbirth and of fate specifically as it concerns a newborn's future, one of the four goddesses who, in the Papyrus Westcar, disguise themselves to assist Reddjedet's delivery.
Family
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Declarer of Destinies
At each child's birth, Meskhenet pronounces their future kingship aloud, a divine declaration of fate that Egyptian belief held was fixed at the moment of birth; her presence in the tale specifically as the goddess who speaks each child's destiny underlines the story's central theme of divinely predetermined, legitimate royal succession.
This article records a specific literary or theological role — a king-list entry, a court tale, or a royal legitimation narrative — rather than the deity's or ruler's fuller religious identity, which (where applicable) is covered in the separate Egyptian Pantheon project.