Tayt

No cosmogonic origin tale is attested in the supplied sources. The name form Taytet is reported to derive from a word meaning 'garment,' situating the goddess etymologically and conceptually within the domain of clothing and textiles rather than a creation myth. Her cult is attested as tutelary of a town called Tait and appears in Old Kingdom funerary literature (Pyramid Texts) and later underworld texts (Book of Caverns).

The supplied sources do not provide a consistent iconographic description or standardized physical depiction of Tayt. What is documented are her roles and actions: she is represented in texts as wrapping bandages on the dead king (Pyramid Texts) and is shown greeting Ra and Osiris in the lower register of the Book of Caverns. Beyond these narrative appearances, no specific garments, attributes, or visual motifs are reliably described in the provided material.

Tayt's attested functions are provision and weaving of textiles—especially high-quality linen used to clothe statues and to wrap the dead—and a protective, maternal role within funerary ideology. Textual evidence describes Tayt as supplying divine linen, clothing deities and officials, wrapping bandages on a dead king, guarding the pharaoh's head (Pyramid Text spell 738a), and greeting gods in underworld narratives. Sources do not attribute overtly supernatural feats beyond these ritualized, protective, and craft-related activities.