Name Help: Eyptian Sorceress villian

[nexus]

The character is an NPC super mage of Takofanes level. Originally the lead of a Cult devoted to Set in ancient Egypt, she had herself embalmed alive to escape almost certain death and has risen to reclaim her power and restore the worship of Set in the modern world. The character is a religious fanatic, utterly ruthless and poesses extensive occult powers.

[Edsel]

Everything here was taken from this Egyptian Mythology website (http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/africa/egyptian/articles.html).

Hedetet -- An Egyptian scorpion-goddess who is mentioned in the Book of the Dead. As a "daughter of Re" she merges into the figure of Isis.

Hetepet -- An Egyptian cult goddess.

Kauket -- An Egyptian primordial goddess who represents the darkness of primal chaos. She is one of the Ogdoad.

Menhit -- An ancient Egyptian lion-goddess, and a goddess of war. She is the wife of the god Chnum, and her son is the god Hike. The three of them were worshipped as a triad in Latopolis (the current Esna) in Upper Egypt. Her name means "she who slaughters".

Naunet -- An Egyptian goddess who representes the primordial abyss of the underworld. Her male counterpart, as well as her consort, is Nun. In the cosmogony of Hermopolis she was a member of the Ogdoad of eight primordial deities.

Nephthys -- The "Mistress of the House" (Nebet-het or Nebt-het in the Egyptian Language), Nephthys is the "Friend of the Dead," and is first mentioned in Old Kingdom funerary literature as riding the "night boat" of the underworld, meeting the deceased king's spirit and accompanying him into "Lightland." Her hair is metaphorically compared to the strips of cloth which shroud the bodies of the dead.

Nephthys is almost universally depicted as a woman with the hieroglyphic symbols of her name (a basket and a house, stacked on top of each other) situated atop her head, though she can also be depicted as a bird (most often a kite or some other form of falcon/hawk). She was associated with funerary rituals throughout ancient Egyptian history and was venerated not as Death itself, but as the companion who gives guidance to the newly deceased, and as a Lady With Wings who comforts the deceased's living relatives. Nephthys is in most myths the youngest daughter of Nut, sister of Isis and Osiris and the sister-consort of Seth. In later periods Nephthys is also considered to be the mother of Anubis, a primordial form of the lord of the dead who later became subservient to Osiris in the Egyptian cultic myth.

Nephthys had connections with life as well as death -- she stood at the head of the birth-bed to comfort and assist the mother giving birth (while her sister, Isis, stood at the foot to midwife the child).

To our current Egyptological knowledge, Nephthys did not have her own cult or temples in Egypt until the Ptolemaic-Roman period; however, as her name is merely a title (the same title given to the eldest woman in any ancient Egyptian household), it is possible that Nephthys may be a specialized form of another goddess; probable candidates include Bat (as she is called the "Lady of Het," or "Nebt-het") and Neith (with whom Nephthys is paired in the canopic shrine quadrants, as Isis is with Serket, who is sometimes seen to be an aspect of Isis.

Neith's being the "eldest of goddesses," along with her connection with weaving and funerary garments lends credence to this theory, as does the interchangeable depiction of Neith and/or Nephthys in symmetrical transposition on a number of Late Period temples.

Sakhmet -- A fiery and destructive Egyptian goddess associated with war and divine vengeance. Her name means "the Mighty One" and she was depicted as a woman with the head of a lioness. Her main center of worship was the Old Kingdom capital of Memphis. It was there that she was worshipped as a member of a divine triad with her husband Ptah and her son Nefertem. She was also worshipped in Luxor.

According to a tale known as "The Destruction of Mankind" Sakhmet was the "Eye of Re", a vengeful aspect of the usually benevolent goddess Hathor. The sun god Re sent Sakhmet to slay mortals who were plotting against him. Sakhmet became so enthusiastic about her task that she nearly slew all of humanity. Re prevented this by tricking her into drinking vast quantities of beer which had been colored to look like blood. The intoxicated goddess had to abandon the slaughter and humanity was saved.

As goddess of war Sakhmet was often said to accompany Pharaoh into battle. The King at war was described as being like Sakhmet in her fury, and the goddess aided him by shooting arrows at his enemies. She was also the "Lady of Pestilence" who could send plague and disease. She was also revered as a healer of these ailments, a role which seems paradoxical in such a bloodthirsty deity.

Urthekau -- The name for Egyptian supernatural powers.

[David Johnston]

http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/names.html

[AlHazred]

Personally, for a villainess, I'd use something Egyptian that's suitably villainous. For instance, Call of Cthulhu favorite Nitocris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris). While she really only killed people who had it coming, many medieval writers considered her villainous and used her in poetry and story. Thus, CoC writers used her as a sort of femme fatale agent of the Black Pharaoh Nephren-Ka (who is completely fictional).

[cturnitsa]

Something that might be kind of cool to do, although it is getting away from the original idea a little...

Do what Kirby often did. Come up with an Awfully Egyptian sounding idea, then change the names. This way you can have all the creativity you want. After all if you come up with a god called "Pectarius, the Hawk of the Sun" and make him Sort of like Horus, but with some other cool abilities, nobody can say that you are not representing Horus properly.

-chuck

[gojira]

I'd vote for Ayesha, or She Who Must Be Obeyed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_%28novel%29)

But that's a somewhat different world view than what I think you wanted.

[Egyptoid]

Khemillah Nejat

[DEFCON Clown]

Anck Su Namun.
After that woman in The Mummy, the one with Brenden Fraser, who Imhotep aka the mummy, was trying to revive.

[VR Dragon]

I was poking around and found this.....

http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/names.html

Which someone else has posted also it seems.

It might help some. Just break off phonic parts and merge to get a cool sounding egyptian name.


Something I patched together.... Kemnafré means black goddess. Kem meaning black and Nafré meaning goddess..

Short, meaningful , and full of ego. A true villian name. :smoke:

[Arkham]

Hate me now...

Mummy Dearest.

You may begin the hate. :-D

[wagnern]

In old relegions and such, to know someone's name is to have some measure of power over them, to use it is even more so. (If I remember correctly, this is one of the theories why calling the judio-christian god Jahova is a sin or someting like that)

So going with this, she may not use a name. Just a title. You could go Duneish and have her flunkies call her 'Reverened Mother' or something like that, or take a clue form Warmachine and call her someting like 'The Harbinger of the Gods'.

[Publius]

...or She Who Must Be Obeyed.Dude, you cannot name your supervillain after my girlfriend (soon to be "my old lady" because the seven-year anniversary is coming up). ;)

You could always go Hatshepsut