Editing Qetesh (section)

{{short description|Ancient Egyptian goddess}}
{{for multi|the Stargate character|Qetesh (Stargate)|other uses|Qadesh (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox deity
| type = Egyptian
| name = Qetesh
| image = Qadesh (Goddess).png
| image_upright = 0.6
| caption = A digital collage showing an image of Qetesh together with hieroglyphs taken from a separate Egyptian relief<br />(the 'Triple Goddess stone')
| symbol = Lion, snake, a bouquet of papyrus or Egyptian lotus, Hathor wig
| parents = [[Ptah]] or [[Ra]]<ref>I. Cornelius, ''[http://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/prepublications/e_idd_qudshu.pdf Qudshu]'', ''[http://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/prepublication.php Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East]'' (electronic pre-publication), p. 1, 4</ref>
}}
{{Fertile Crescent myth (Levantine)}}
{{Middle Eastern deities}}
{{Ancient Egyptian religion}}
'''Qetesh''' (also '''Qodesh''', '''Qadesh''', '''Qedesh''', '''Qetesh''', '''Kadesh''', '''Kedesh''', '''Kadeš''' or '''Qades''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɑː|d|ɛ|ʃ}}) was a goddess who was incorporated into the [[ancient Egyptian religion]] in the late [[Bronze Age]]. Her name was likely developed by the Egyptians based on the [[Semitic root]] ''[[Q-D-Š]]'' meaning 'holy' or 'blessed,'<ref>Ch. Zivie-Choche, ''[https://escholarship.org/content/qt7tr1814c/qt7tr1814c.pdf Foreign Deities in Egypt]'' [in:] J. Dieleman, W. Wendrich (eds.), ''UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology'', 2011, p. 5-6</ref> attested as a title of [[El (deity)|El]] and possibly [[Athirat]] and a further independent deity in texts from [[Ugarit]].<ref>M. Krebernik, ''Qdš'' [in:] ''[http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#9862 Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie]'' vol. 11, 2008, p. 176</ref>

Due to lack of clear references to Qetesh as a distinct deity in Ugaritic and other Syro-Palestinian sources, she is considered an Egyptian deity influenced by religion and iconography of [[Canaan]] by many modern researchers, rather than merely a Canaanite deity adopted by the Egyptians (examples of which include [[Reshef]] and [[Anat]])<ref>S. L. Budin, ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3270523 A Reconsideration of the Aphrodite-Ashtart Syncretism]'', ''Numen'' vol. 51, no. 2, 2004, p. 100</ref><ref>I. Cornelius, ''[http://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/prepublications/e_idd_qudshu.pdf Qudshu]'', ''[http://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/prepublication.php Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East]'' (electronic pre-publication), p. 1: "a goddess by the name of Q. is not known in the Ugaritic or any other Syro–Palestinian texts"</ref>