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Goddess Nekhbet


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Goddess Nekhbet
Goddess Nekhbet was the vulture goddess of Upper Egypt, Nekhbet was described with fenders spread and taking the shen sign of tribute in her talons. Nekhbet is first observed in the Pyramid Texts as a orthodox mother goddess.Later, Nekhbet grown the vulture goddess worshipped by  the  early  southwest  kings.  Nekhbet,  on  with Wadjet, the cobra goddess of the northern, was one of the  "two mighty ones,"  been  the  unification of  Egypt.  The  predator  and  cobra  heads  sometimes appear side by side on the kings’ crown as symbols for the union of Upper and Lower Egypt. Nekhbet’s big cult center at El Kab (modern Kom el Ahmar) today is almost altogether finished.

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