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Anuket and Satis (NSFW)

If it is one thing Egypt is known for is its plethora of ancient deities. Like any culture, it is well known for gods and goddesses to have families of their own. Probably one of the lesser known deities are the case of Anuket and Satis, but what are they and what importance did they bring to the Ancient Egyptian Empire? Perhaps it is best to talk about Anuket first. Anuket also known as Anket, Anqet, Anjet, or Anukis, is known as an Egyptian goddess of the Nile. She is known as the goddess of the hunt and a protector to childbirth. However unlike many of the Egyptian deities, Anuket came much further south than many of the other Egyptian deities even as far as Sudan or Nubia. The goddess is sometimes looked at as the daughter of Ra and was sometimes looked at as a water deity in her abilities to help purify the water. In the times of the New Kingdom, her story changed so that she was the daughter of Satis with her father being Khnum. Anuket is also known to appear with a headdress of ostrich feathers, holding a scepter, and is sometimes even associated in the form of the gazelle. Her name means to embrace. In the later years of Anuket, she is often depicted suckling the pharoah and is even looked at as a goddess of lust. One festival even has members go to the Nile where they toss precious jewels, gold, or money into the water in hopes of pleasing the goddess. In Tales of Heroes, Anuket is the daughter of the Egyptian Goddess Satis. She and her mother got along well but lived mostly a quiet life. During the late 1500s, Anuket would fall in love with a human mortal in Egypt. With the help of her mother's fertility magic, she would even conceive his child. All seemed well until the destructive entity named Cataclysm was closing in on Earth. The deities had to unite to form the Coalition of Deities and put together their resources or face annihilation from a creature that was sure to devour everything on Earth and the solar system with it. Anuket looking at her pregnant belly knew that there was little that could be done. Everything sent to go after Cataclysm was killed and was well aware that sacrificing herself would kill her unborn child in the process. Her and her mother had made the choice to go to sleep and try to fight Cataclysm in the dream world in hopes to slow the entity down. In 1955, Anuket and Satis would be awoken to learn that over four hundred years had past. With her body suspended, she was still bearing her child and had learned the horrifying truth that even though Cataclysm was defeated, she had been asleep for far longer than ever expected. Expecting only a year to pass, Anuket knew that her former husband had long been deceased. The sacrifice was hard for her. Not only was her husband dead but her father Khnum sacrificed himself in the endless waves that tried destroy Cataclysm. Mortified, she wept but was happy to know that she was alive. The Coalition of Deities were more than welcome to see living faces that were thought to be long dead. It would be a long period of rebuilding for the Coalition of Deities and the soon to be mother Anuket had to recover and move on. Anuket wanted to ensure that she had a father to help raise her child. Thankfully her powers in being the goddess of water and lust, made her a lucky woman on this case. Even in her human form, men would look at the Egyptian goddess and simply couldn't help but admire the soon to be mother. All she had to do was simply wonder around the streets of Egypt until she found a suitor. A man by the name of Lateef, approached her and admitted his feeling towards her. She had to test to see how he would react later on when she revealed her true form as the Egyptian gazelle goddess Anuket to the human mortal. Lateef swore to marry her and be the father to her unborn child. In the picture seen above, Anuket and Lateef would share a romantic night together. A few months later she would give birth to her son in which she named Khnum to honor her father's sacrifice. Of course when one talks about Anuket, it is very easy to talk about Satis but who is she? Satis also known as Satet, Setet, Sati, or Satit, is an Egyptian goddess known as the archer. Even her very name "Sat" is a word that means to shoot or to eject. Satis was often confused by scholars as Anuket herself as she played similar roles as to the other goddess. The one catch with her was that she was more well defined. Satis was often looked at as the goddess of the hunt and was known for her great archery skills. She was depicted in artwork with her bow and arrow but was seen with things such as a pot in which she pours water to the Nile River. This has essentially made Satis the protector of Southern Egypt and the one that flooded the Nile with the single teardrops from the Goddess Isis. It is not uncommon for Satis to be confused with Anuket. History does become lost and even the Egyptian civilization and cults would turn and alter beliefs to what they see fit. There was some belief that Satis and Anuket were sisters and that Satis was the daughter of Ra. This had changed once the New Kingdom had arrived in how they defined the goddess. Satis would become the wife of Khnum and Anuket was considered to be her daughter. Her importance with the Nile River even put her to a similar role to the great Hathor and even made her a fertility goddess as well. Satis is often depicted with a Hedjet or a white crown with gazelle horns. In other cases she has been depicted as a gazelle to help symbolize her closer connection to the deeper interior of Africa. In Tales of Heroes, Satis was always close with her daughter, so much that many could easily consider them to be sisters. Her daughter practically looked exactly like her in which Anuket responded by cutting her hair short so that others could tell the difference. Satis was known to be exceedingly beautiful to others with her long flowing hair that looked like the running waters of the Nile itself. Satis's ability as an archer made her the best marksman of the Egyptian deities. She was even a water goddess even though her daughter was actually better at it than she was. When her daughter was born, Satis would pass her archery skills to her daughter but even in the end, she was the best archer the Egyptian gods would ever see and one of the best in Coalition of Deities. Happily married to Khnum, the gazelle goddess would enjoy a quiet life in Southern Egypt while occasionally offering her magical abilities as a fertility goddess. As with the story of Cataclysm, Satis learned that her daughter was pregnant. She could not abandon her daughter and she decided to also put herself to sleep to safeguard her daughter and her unborn grandchild. It was thought to be just a short sleep of a year but they were shocked to learn that over four hundred years had passed when they woke up. Anuket was hit with the worst news but Satis would learn that her husband Khnum was gone. His sacrifice put Satis into a depression even if the Coalition of Deities had welcomed her back and celebrated her revival. She had watched her daughter try to recover, remarry, and ultimately give birth to a grandchild that she named in honor of her father. It would be Anuket that would help pull her mother out of her depression. The daughter of the archer gazelle goddess had married a man named Lateef. Lateef had a father named Ohmes that had recently lost a wife (Lateef's mother) due to the internal struggle of Egypt and illness. It was recommended by Anuket that her mother go and become associated with Ohmes so that they can bare their losses together and help one another out. Ohmes was already well aware that his son had married the gazelle goddess Anuket which made it much easier for Satis to reveal who she was him. What became the relationship of Ohmes and Satis, was a slow one. It did not happen overnight and the two were just friends at first for almost a year. Anuket had been raising her son with Lateef and was thinking of having more children with him in the future. Satis and Ohmes essentially pulled each other out of the roads of depression, became friends, and finally lovers. The mother of Anuket and the father of Lateef would get married and celebrate their union together. The picture you see above is their celebrated marriage together. Almost a year had passed for Satis and Anuket. Satis would use her fertility magic and the seed of Ohmes to impregnate herself, happy to become a mother once again. Satis stands at the Nile River once again along with her daughter who is happily taking care of her grandson. It is the rebuilding period for the deities. After much losses, the need to have children, train, and pass on one's knowledge to the next generation of deities is an important one. Another Cataclysm possibly lies in the darkness ready to strike at any time. Satis much like the other deities ready themselves for the inevitable even if it may take thousands of years for another one to appear. For now, she must pass along her knowledge and her skills of the bow to her future offspring. Satis would have another son and daughter from Ohmes as Anuket would have three children of her own from Lateef. As much as humanity improves itself and expand to the 21st century and beyond, the gods must improve themselves as well. Much like the original Egyptian artwork and depictions of the two goddesses, Satis wears her white hedjet crown. Her bow and quiver are with her as she shakes her daughters hand. Anuket wears her majestic headdress of ostrich feathers while holding on to her grandson. The two goddesses are happy to be alive as the Nile River continues to flow.