Sopdet

Sopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian goddess. Known to the Greeks as Sothis, she was conflated with Isis as a goddess and Anubis as a god.

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Deity.type: Egyptian
Deity.name: Sopdet
Deity.image: Sopdet.svg
Deity.caption: Sopdet in green dress, with star on her head
Deity.hiero: M44-N14-X1:H8
Deity.symbol: Sirius; dog (Ptolemaic/Roman)
Deity.consort: Sah (Orion); Osiris
Deity.offspring: Sopdu (Venus); Horus

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Sopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian goddess. Known to the Greeks as Sothis, she was conflated with Isis as a goddess and Anubis as a god.

==Names== The exact pronunciation of ancient Egyptian is uncertain, as vowels were not recorded until a very late period. In modern transcription, her name usually appears as Sopdet (, ), after the known Greek and Latin form Sothis ().