Tueris or Taueret, whose name means 'Great Female of the Earth' or 'A Great Woman', is the egyptian goddess of fertility. "La Grande" was also protective of the pregnant and heavenly goddess, the "Mysterious of the horizon."
Its name alternates with those of Tau-Urt, Taurt (Egyptian name), Tuat, Taweret, Tuart, Ta-weret and Taueret, and in Greek Thoeris and Toeris.
This goddess is represented as a woman with hippo head, with large breasts (traditional fertility symbol, and also this was a nurse goddess) and a pregnant belly. It has the limbs of a lion and the tail of a crocodile. It often appears alongside symbols such as a headdress with feathers or horns and the solar disk.
Its grotesque appearance is probably due to the intention of diverting or 'frightening' the malicious spirits in this way and to grant the powers of animals as dangerous as the hippo, the lion, and the crocodile, so that they could act as the protection for women and their descendants.
And, as we saw when talking about the hairstyle in Egyptian women during childbirth, this goddess used to entrust the pregnant women so that everything went well, and they made offerings or carried her in amulets. She not only protected, but also helped as a supernatural nurse nurse nursing newborns.
Taueret is also involved in many aspects of everyday life, and was a very popular Egyptian goddess of protection in general, and of fertility.
It is a domestic deity that is represented in beds and pillows, and was often in the company of the dwarf God Bes, who had a similar function.
The Egyptian goddess pregnant Tueris It is another example of the importance that was attached in ancient civilizations to the supernatural, in any area of life. Pregnancy and childbirth, which today seem magical to us, could not be less.
