{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_EGY_MESKHENET", "Meskhenet", null, "Egyptian", "Birth goddess / Fate deity", "Fertility Deity", "childbirth; birth brick; fate at birth; destiny; protection of newborns", null, null, null, "A", null, null, null, null, null, "Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fate; presides over the birth brick (the \"meskhenet\"), a low brick on which Egyptian women squatted to give birth; she is present at every birth and determines the newborn's fate (shay/shai) at the moment of delivery; attested in the Coffin Texts (Middle Kingdom, c. 2055-1650 BCE) and famously in Papyrus Westcar (Middle Kingdom narrative involving the miraculous births of the first three kings of the 5th Dynasty), where Meskhenet appears alongside Isis, Nephthys, Heket, and Khnum to assist at the royal births; she is also present at the final judgment scene (the weighing of the heart), where she testifies about the deceased; her iconography includes the birth brick headdress or a double-looped uterine symbol", "deity"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_EGY_MESKHENET"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 80.90261899997131, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}