Does the Proto Canaanite ‘mother serpent’the Pyramid text of Unas/Wenis have another known name or epithet?
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It is still not very much known about the text in question. But for a direct parallel in anything 'bible' it seems safe to say: no.
kw 333 imhw imhw (PT 235 §239a) […] suggesting that the phrase imhw may be 'm hwy 'mother of snake.' Recalling that Egyptian 3 was originally used to render Semitic r, […] further that 333 was the name Rir-Rir, a reduplicated form of Hebrew-Aramaic rir. The noun rir refers to spittle (more precisely: slaver, drool) and other liquid secretions and is no doubt used here of snake venom. Although the name Rir-Rir (= "Spittle- Spittle") has four r's, it is written as though it had only three. That would seem to indicate that it was pronounced not [ri:r ri:r] but [ri:r:i:r], with the two adjacent r's in the middle coalescing into a single long [r:].
In the case of Rir-Rir and imhw imhw (PT 235), the iconic nature of the reduplication is quite obvious, for it mimics the duality of this creature. All of the evidence indicates that Rir-Rir had two heads. In the preceding utterance (PT 234), we find a reference to a female serpent "that jubilates with both of her faces" […] that this serpent is Rir-Rir, the mother snake.
M. G. Amadasi Guzzo, who rejects Lidzbarski's claim, discusses the possibility that this inscription is addressed to Tnt, "the 'goddess' par excellence of Carthage, the goddess that presides over the rites of the tofet and that is therefore connected to the beyond." Now, it has been proposed that the name Tnt derives from tannin+ t "female dragon, monstrous female serpent" (cf. Hebrew tannin, Arabic tinnin, etc.). If this etymology is correct and if KAI 89 is addressed to Tnt, we should consider the possibility that hwt (perhaps vocalized hawwat or hiwit) is an epithet of Tnt with the meaning "female serpent."
Writes the scholar who was featured in the reference in the question: - Richard Steiner: "Early Northwest Semitic Serpent Spells In The Pyramid Texts" 2011
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