M‧R‧T

Per-Merit
𓌻𓂋𓏏𓆇𓂢     ​𓌻𓂋𓏏𓁻𓅆     ​𓌻𓂋𓏏𓆇𓇉𓁐  ​  𓌻𓂋𓇋𓏲𓁐

MDC: mrt
Gardiner: mr.t
Budge: Merit
Transliteration: Meret
Coptic: 
Hebrew:
Greek: 
Arabic: Mrt/مرت
English: 
Kemetic: 
Alternative names: Merit, Mert
Pronounced: Meret
Meaning: She who is beloved

Consort

Hapy (god of the Nile)

Symbols

papyrus / wAD

offering bowl

Goddess of the eighth hour

Gold/ nbw

blue lotus /sSn

Lower Egypt papyrus 𓇇 

Upper Egypt Lotus 𓇗

Roles

Goddess of Music, rejoicing, such as singing and dancing. Protectresses of mostly Lower Egypt, but sometimes shown with a lotus signifying Upper Egypt. Establishes cosmic order through music. Queen of the Treasury.

Connection to other gods

Mut

Celebrations

Associated with sed-festival

Offering items

Sheet music

Sistrum 𓏣

​Music-related objects 

Epitaphs

Merit --dual Goddess of Upper and Lower Egypt 'The two Merets'

mr.t Smrw.t , mr.t Sma--Merit friend of Upper Egypt

mr.t mHy.t--Merit guardian of Lower Egypt 

知者不言，言者不知。

Do things without comment, LIVE the Life!"

― Edgar Cayce (ECRL 257-168)

There are many paths to God, but the way of Mary is the sweetest and most gentle. If I can melt into Mary, the matrix, the blueprint of life, the Divine Mother, 萬物之母, I will be formed and shaped in Christ and Christ into me, and thus through the breath of God’s Mercy, I will come into being and know (S)Him. For it is the breath of mercy that bestows being. Every moment God appears in living form, never manifesting himself twice in the same moment.

―Bulent Rauf―Sufi-mystic /The Last Barrier by Reshad Feild

c. 2700 BCE: In Ancient Egypt, Merit-Ptah is said to have practised medicine in the pharaoh's court. Mery or Meri and its feminine equivalent Meryt or Merit is an ancient Egyptian name meaning "beloved". It was common during the Old and Middle Kingdom, and very frequent during the New Kingdom. It was also used as a nickname.

Mary or Maria the Jewess, also known as Mary the Prophetess (Latin: Maria Prophetissima), is an early alchemist. She is said to have spoken of the union of opposites:

―"Join the male and the female, and you will find what is sought."

The following was known as the Axiom of Maria:

―"One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth."

Marie-Louise von Franz, an associate of psychologist Carl Jung, gives an alternative version:

―"Out of the One comes Two, out of Two comes Three, and from the Third comes the One as the Fourth."

Carl Jung used this axiom as a metaphor for wholeness and individuation.

Mary, from Middle English Marie, from Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מַרְיָם‎ (maryām) or Hebrew מִרְיָם‎ (miryām), of uncertain origin. Doublet of Miriam.

Proposals for the meaning of this name include derivation from the root מ־ר־ר‎ (m-r-r, “related to bitterness”), or from the root מ־ר־י‎ (m-r-y, “to mutiny, rebellion, disobedience”), or even from outside Semitic.

Miriam (Hebrew: מִרְיָם‎, Modern: Miryam, Tiberian: Miryām) is a feminine given name recorded in Biblical Hebrew, recorded in the Book of Exodus as the name of the sister of Moses, the prophetess Miriam.

Spelling variants include French Myriam, German Mirjam, Mirijam; hypocoristic forms include Mira, Miri and Mimi (commonly given in Israel).

The name's etymology is unclear. Since many Levite names are of Egyptian origin, the name could come from the Egyptian mr "love", as in the Egyptian names mry.t-jmn (Merit-Amun) "beloved of Amun" and mry.t-rꜥ (Merytre) "beloved of Ra".

A Judeo-Aramaic variant of this name, Maryām (Μαριάμ) is recorded in the New Testament as the name of several women, including Mary, mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Variants of this name include Greek and Latin Maria, whence French Marie and English Mary. 

In antiquity, it was variously etymologized as "rebellion", "bitter sea", "strong waters", "exalted one", "ruling one", "wished for child", or "beautiful". "Though the meaning of Mary as derived from the Egyptian Mery, Meryt (cherished, beloved), is most suitable for an only daughter, such a derivation is only possible, or at best barely probable." A. Maas, "The Name of Mary"

, The Catholic Encyclopedia (1912)