Amentet (Imentet) is a goddess of the dead in ancient Egypt. She wears a red sheath dress and lives in a tree near the entrance of Duat. Amentet gives the deceased food and drink. The drink may be a mix of sea and fresh water, from which all life originates.
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Occasionally in a psychopomp role like Anubis, Amentet is a helper to the deceased. Her name means "She of the West". A necropolis or city of the dead is usually on the west bank of a river such as the Nile.
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East attunes to birth and the land of the living. West is associated with death. The place of the setting sun is called amenti (or amentet), the entrance to the Underworld. Later the term is related to graveyards and tombs.
Her primary role is to invigorate the deceased with food and drink, so the person can take the tests required before entering Paradise. Connected to Goddess of Death Nepthys and underworld form of Isis, Amentet may be interpreted as an aspect of one of these.
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She's usually shown in a red sheath dress wearing the hawk hieroglyph for "west" on her head. She holds a scepter and ankh. She may also appear in tombs welcoming the deceased into the afterlife, sometimes with wings of a kite (bird).
In this aspect she's easily confused with the sisters Nephthys and Isis, who may also have wings or appear as kites. Other winged goddesses include vulture deity Nekhbet, winged cobra goddess Wadjet, sky goddess Nut and Ma'at, personification of justice.
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The consort of Amentet is Aqen, an obscure ancient Egyptian deity of the underworld. He's first mentioned in the Book of the Dead (2nd millennium BCE). He guides the sun god Ra as underworld protector of Ra's celestial barque, "bringing the shen-ring to his majesty".
He's also called the "mouth of the time", from which the gods and demons pull the "rope of time", described in the tomb of king Seti I (r. 1290-1279 BCE). Above, falcon god Ra or Horus holding shen rings in its talons.