Goddess Neith

Goddess Neith Name

Goddess Neith

Goddess Neith was an an ancient creator goddess whose cult center was in the Delta city of Sais (modern San el-Hager in the  western  Delta).  Like  many  of  the  goddesses  of ancient  Egypt,  Neith  had  a  dual  nature,  both  fierce and gentle. She is referred in the Pyramid Texts as a  dead room  goddess,  accompanying  Isis,  Nephthys, and Selket when they guarded the mummy of Osiris. Neiths warlike nature was declared by her symbols, two crossed pointers over a shield. Neith was the frequenter goddess  of  hunters  and  warriors,  who  asked  for  her signing  on  their  weapons.  She  was  addressed  Mistress of the Bow and Ruler of Arrows. Neith is established as a woman enduring the red crown of Lower Egypt. Her symbol, the swept arrows and shield, have been united  with  the  early dynastic  king  Hor-Aha (3100 b.c.),  possibly  in  connexion  with  his  committing  a temple to Neith.

In  her  broken  nature,  Neith  was  a  patroness  of weaving, and carried her powers to Osiris through the mummy wrappers. In the New Kingdom (1550-1069 b.c.), Neith was famous as gods mother who paid Ra before anything lived, substance that she was the first god to give birth. On her temple wall was entered, I am all that has been, that is, and that leave be. She was said to be the wife of Set and the mother of Sobek.  Neith  rose  to  bump  in  the Twenty-sixth  Dynasty  when  Sais  gone  the  capital of Egypt. Greece historian Herodotus, the Greek traveler, in Book II of his Known History, describes a serious festival honoring Neith named the spread of lamps, in which hundreds of oil lamps were lit and treated all night in her observe.

Neiths importance as a creator goddess grown during the Roman period when an account of her part in the creation of the world was carved at Esna temple in Upper Egypt. The story goes that Neith egressed from the  primordial  waters,  created  Earth,  and  observed the  flow  of  the  Nile  north  where  she  created Sais, her craze city. There are earlier references in the New Kingdom (1550-1069 b.c.) to Neiths activities as  a  creator  goddess  when  she  processes  the  pharaoh Amenhotep II. The  Greeks  described  Neith  with  their  goddess Athena.