Ankt

Anuket
Goddess of the Nile river
The goddess Anuket, depicted as a woman with a tall, plumed headdress
Name in hieroglyphs
Major cult center	Elephantine, Seheil
Symbol	Bow, arrows, gazelle, ostrich feather
Parents	Khnum and Satet
Siblings	Ra, Apophis, Sobek, Tehuti, Hathor, Serqet, Heka, Kuk, Kauket

Anuket was the personification and goddess of the Nile river in the Egyptian mythology in Elephantine, at the start of the Nile's journey through Egypt, and in nearby regions of Nubia.

In Ancient Egyptian, she was known as Anuket, Anaka, or Anqet. Her name meant the "Clasper" or "Embracer". In Greek, this became Anoukis (Ανουκις), sometimes also spelled Anukis. In the interpretatio graeca, she was considered equivalent to Hestia or Vesta.

Anuket was usually depicted as a woman with a headdress of either reed or ostrich feathers (thought by most egyptologists to be a detail deriving from Nubia). She was usually depicted as holding a Sceptre topped with an ankh, and her sacred animal was the gazelle. She was also shown suckling the Pharaoh through the New Kingdom and became a goddess of lust in later years. In later periods, she was assoiciated with the Cowry, especially the shell, which resembled the vagina.

She was originally the daughter of Ra, but was always related to Satet in some way. For example, both goddesses were called the "Eye of Ra", along with Bastet, Hathor, and Sekhmet. Also, they were both related in some way to the Uraeus.

Anuket was part of a triad with the god Khnum, and the goddess Satis. She may have been the sister of the goddess Satis or she may have been a junior consort to Khnum instead.