Imentet
/ɪˈmɛn.tɛt/noun
An ancient Egyptian goddess personifying the western horizon and the realm of the dead.
Did you know?Imentet was associated with the western necropolises because the setting sun symbolized the dead entering the afterlife.
Etymological Timeline
Old Kingdom, c. 2686–2181 BCE
Egyptian
jmn.tt
“The feminine personification of the west; the western land of the setting sun.”
Middle Kingdom, c. 2055–1650 BCE
Egyptian
jmntt
“The West, especially the western region associated with cemeteries and the dead.”
New Kingdom, c. 1550–1070 BCE
Egyptian
Imentet
“A goddess of the western horizon who welcomes or receives the deceased.”
Ptolemaic–Roman Egypt, c. 332 BCE–395 CE
Greek
Amentēs
“A Greek rendering associated with the Egyptian western realm and its goddess.”
19th–20th Century
Egyptology
Imentet
“The conventional scholarly transliteration and English form for the Egyptian goddess and personified West.”