The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

4. _The Lynx goddess_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ Maftit. The name of this deity

is generally translated Lynx, and it is certainly applied to an animal of the feline species closely resembling the cat. But the notion expressed by the name is that of _swift speed_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂. (See Dümichen, _Rec._ IV, 100, where this verb is in parallel with others of the same sense.) This deity is again mentioned in the 39th chapter as taking part in the conflict with the dragon of darkness, and it is named in the strange magic formulæ already found in the Pyramid texts. She is called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Teta 310), and she apparently defends the deceased (_ib._, l. 303) against two serpent divinities, one of whom at least, ⁂⁂⁂ _T’eser-ṭepu_ (_praeclaro capite_), is known to us as one of the forty-two assessors of Osiris (_Todtenbuch_, 125-33). ------------------------------------