Taweret

... is back in Sunny Acres.

And Tawaret is...

We kind of alluded to what was gonna happen in the last episode when we were chatting with Dayrien, but-

But it's all out in, it's all out in the open now.

She can just be a good friend of his, and he has to deal with his crush.

Mm-hmm.

And, and Tawaret should not.

Like, I understand that you are grieving, but it's not her fault.

So Dogen breaks it over his knee.

And yeah, it looks like the ankhs that the statue of Tawaret was holding.

So that is something to note.

And okay, behind the scenes, how many ankhs do you think they made? How many ankhs did they break? 15.

Bess, a dwarf god with a lion's mane, guarded pregnant women and children.

Tawaret, a hippopotamus goddess, protected during childbirth.

Every home had a small shrine.

Every occupation had a patron.

It was so incomprehensibly ancient and old, and so many of those gods are just gone.

But where do gods go if they are eternal? And here, here is, I- in this duat, in this thing that has establishment in the mythology, I have invented a retirement home for the gods where it is run by, uh, Tauret, a hippo goddess who fights demons.

Yeah.

And I think that's so fun.

[laughs] And-

That is also true.

Should we say something about Tauret?

Oh, God.

Okay.

They took the fierce lethal aggression of a mother hippopotamus defending her territory and turned her into the goddess Taweret, viewing her as a fiercely protective mother figure.

It's a master class in psychological coping mechanisms.

The thought process is basically, "This creature has the power to destroy my life, so I am going to elevate it to a god, build it a shrine, and pray that it redirects that destructive violence toward my enemies instead of my family."

The physical process was managed by experienced midwives.

But to manage the profound psychological terror of the event, the household deployed their most aggressive magical defenses.

You mentioned Taweret earlier.

The goddess with the body of a pregnant hippopotamus.