Iat
Goddess of milk
Name inhieroglyphs	[1]
Symbol

Iat (Ancient Egyptian:jꜣt) is anancient Egyptian minor goddess of milk and, by association, of nurturing and childbirth.^[2]

The goddess is sparsely attested, and what little we know of her is based upon a handful of mentions in thePyramid Texts.^[1][3] These include the following:

• utterance PT 211/Pyr. 131, where it is said of the deceased king, "My foster-mother is Iat, and it is she who nourishes me, it is indeed she who bore me" (unknown translator)^[3] or "The Milk-Goddess is his attendant. She is the one who will make it possible for him to live: she in fact is the one who boreUnis" (James P. Allen’s translation);^[4]
• utterance PT 578/Pyr. 1537, where the dead king is told to take on her identity in order to reach the gods in the retinue of the sun: "you should take hold of them, in your identity of the north wind; they will take account of you, in your identity of Anubis; and the gods will not go down against you, in your identity of the Milk-Goddess";^[4]
• and utterance MAFS PT 1071, which counsels, "Since you are little, you should give your arm to the Sun and sit with your arm to the Milk-Goddess."^[4]

The name of the goddess resembles one Egyptian word for "milk",jꜣtt;^[3] the more common work for milk,jrṯt, may also have some etymological connection to both.

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