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Dzonokwa, the Wild Woman of the Woods, was the Kwakiutl Goddess of abundance and rebirth. She bestowed wonderful blessings upon those who respected her but she was also greatly feared. After her son was killed by hunters, a young orphan, who was not pleasant to look at, led her to the body and they carried him home. To thank the young man for his kindness, she bestowed great riches upon him. When she threw some magical water on him and on the body of her son, the orphan became handsome and her son came back to life. She taught the orphan the secrets of rebirth and revived his parents with her magical water.

Sekhmet, whose name meant "the mighty one", was the ancient Egyptian Goddess of destruction as well as healing. Greatly disgusted with human beings for their lack of reverence, she began to eat them. The other deities became concerned and put out a mixture of beer and pomegranate juice. Thinking it was blood, Sekhmet lapped it up and fell into a stupor. When she awoke, all her rage was gone. Because of her great knowledge of magic, she possessed tremendous powers of healing. She had the power to manifest energy into form. She holds an ankh, symbol of eternal life, in her left hand; in her right, she holds a papyrus scepter. The papyrus was the emblem of Lower Egypt and symbolized the creation of the world from the primeval waters.

Wadjit was the Egyptian Goddess of Creation who birthed the sun each morning from the sacred papyrus marshes. Known as Buto to the Greeks, her name meant "The Green One" or "The Papyrus-Hued One", referring to her exceptional powers of growth. Wadjit was also the protective hissing cobra of the uraeus. She was depicted in both cobra and human form. In her cobra form, she was the symbol of Lower Egypt and it was said that the papyrus emerged from her. As an inhabitant of the marshes, the otter was also associated with her. The relief on the left shows Wadjit in a gesture of protection from the pyramid temple of King Neuserra, 5th Dynasty. To the right of that is a relief of a papyrus marsh from the Mastaba of Mereruka, Saqqara, 6th Dynasty c. 2300 BCE; behind it, on the left, is a statue of an otter from the Ptolemaic Period c. 304-30 BCE and, on the right, a copy of a previously existing mural of a papyrus marsh that was originally in the north palace of Akhenaton at Tell-el-Amarna, c. 1360 BCE. The relief on the right of Wadjit in her cobra form is from the funerary bed of Queen Hetephras, 4th Dynasty. She is wearing an earring and an armband (design adapted from a pectoral) from Tutankhamen's Tomb, c. 1323 BCE.

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