Every Serpent in Egyptian Mythology Explained in 14 Minutes

Every Serpent in Egyptian Mythology Explained in 14 Minutes Renenutet is one of those goddesses who shows up everywhere in ancient Egyptian life and yet somehow never gets the recognition she deserves. Her name translates roughly to "she who nourishes," and that tells you almost everything about her role. She was a cobra goddess, depicted either as a rearing serpent or as a woman with a cobra's head, and she presided over two things that ancient Egyptians cared about more than almost anything else: the harvest and the fate of newborns. Farmers prayed to her at planting and at reaping, believing she moved through the fields protecting crops from pests and blight, her hooded form weaving silently between the grain stalks.