The Goddess Neth, Neith
The Goddess Neth, Neith
Neith - the symbol of war, weaving and hunting among the pharaohs and ancient Egyptians | Facts and history of gods and religious beliefs in the civilisation of ancient Egypt, discover the legends, temples, tales about it and more.Goddess Neith or as it was known in ancient times as the Virgin Mother, Neith is symbolised as the goddess of war and weaving, it was once a goddess who creates humans, and his father is the god Nu, Neith had a group of sons including Apophis, Thoth and Sobek, learn more information about her below.
The legend of her creation tells that she emerged by herself from the heart of light, and that the earth was still in its darkness. She became a cow, then she became a white fish and began to walk on her way until she lit up the scene with her eyes like light, and lifted a punch in the middle of the water from (Esna), called the land of water and the city of Sayes on which she flew like a beetle.
Then other areas of Sayes appeared and the land of Sayes was called the Land of Creation. In this place the gods would be created, then the sun, and then the world would be guarded by the Word, as we will see in the third formation.
Thus, the myth of the creator goddess Neith is an ideal myth for combining the two ways of creating the female (as a goddess) with creating the male (by word), a rare association embodied by the myth of this goddess outside the solar system. Creation. The Greeks were guided by their goddess Athena (instead of Bows) and believed that she would make way for and protect Pharaoh when he went to war.
Portrayal of the Goddess Neet
- The goddess Nette came bearing the Wass scepter, a scepter that was used in ancient times to symbolize power, as well as the ankh, the key to life.
- The goddess bore a number of titles, including the Cow of Heaven, and was thus similar to the goddess Peanut.
- She was believed to be the protector of the royal house and was considered to be the unbridled fury of the sun.
- Over time, she became the personification of water, the source of human creation, and was later united with the Great Mother Goddess.
- This goddess was known to be able to create humans, but only one race.
Lord of the West - No or No (there are two variants of the spelling of her name ) goddess in ancient Egypt Varieties of worship (no) or (nyt) by authorization summarizing the dew kindled from which the sun Ra - lord of the Pharaonic gods - and the origin of the word in the ancient Egyptian language on the other hand: the word in walls (nat) to walls (nit), which means the verb woven into this Case can be agreed with scholars who have described her as the goddess of cloth and splendor in her sacred signs (appearing in Libyan tattoos) and usually depicted above the head (as the symbol of the weaving shuttle).
She is the goddess of war. The goddess (Neith) was a full human being, but she carried a shield with two crossed arrows, and a shield carrying two crossed arrows is the sacred material symbol of the goddess (Neith), and the ancient Amazigh specialized in adorning her with tattoos of the arm alone, as is evident from the remains of pharaonic antiquities.
Name and Symbol
In Pharaonic texts, the goddess Neith is called "Lady of the West"—she is written Net or Neith—and, according to various Pharaonic texts, represents various goddesses born in different eras and stages of Pharaonic civilization.
The worship of Net or Neith is linked to a personification in the form of the primordial pool of water from which the sun god—the lord of the Pharaonic gods—Ra—emerged. The origin of the word in ancient Egyptian, on the other hand, is that if we trace the word "Net" back to the word "Nett," which means the verb "to weave," then we can accept the view of scholars who described her as a goddess of weaving and who saw in her sacred signs (which appear on Libyan tattoos) and are usually depicted above her head (as a symbol of a loom shuttle).
She is the goddess of war. The goddess Neith was seen with a shield with two crossed arrows on it, despite being a fully realized human being. The goddess Neith's sacred material symbol is a shield with two crossed arrows. The ancient Amazighs were unique in adorning themselves with her by tattooing her on their arms, to the exclusion of others, as appears from the remains of the Pharaonic monuments.
The Myth of the Goddess Net
Herodotus mentions that ancient Amazigh women danced in two divided groups, wearing war attire, in a horse-drawn dance around Lake Tritonis, currently located in the Gulf of Gabes in Tunisia. This was likely in honor of the goddess Athena, the Greek goddess, according to Plato.
Her Worship
The worship of Neith flourished in the later periods, beginning with the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, also known as the Saisian Dynasty. The kings of this dynasty had distant Libyan origins. The original home of her cult was the city of Sais, the capital of the Fourth and Fifth Districts in the Delta. Her worship spread to Upper Egypt after the political unification of the two regions, just as it had previously spread to the Delta.
Her characteristics are indistinguishable from those of Isis. Wes Budge says that the origin of this goddess, with her main characteristics, goes back to the Nile Delta and eastern Libya, and that her characteristics are represented by the rituals of procreation and reproduction. Dr. Rajab Abdel Hamid Al-Athram confirms that Neith in the western Delta is the same as Tanit in the Tripolitanian region. (See Lectures on the Ancient History of Libya.) In ancient times, she was called "the one who existed before existence."
In one of the commemorative texts, she says, describing herself: "I am everything that has existed—everything that exists—everything that will exist—and no one has ever been able to reveal my veil." However, the Egyptians applied these same attributes to Isis, but by the name "Athena," who says: "I was created from myself." The meaning of the word Neith or Net in ancient Egyptian is: "She or the existing one—or the one who came into existence." She is also described in Pharaonic texts as "the hidden one." (From the book "The Gods of the Pharaohs" by Wallis Budge. Translated by Youssef Ahmed Al-Khatali.)
Finally, we should point out that "the veil of Neith that no one removed" can be compared to the veil of the Greek goddess Persephone, which was found only in Libya! Indeed, Libyan archaeologist Professor Abdul Qader Al-Mazini asserts that "outside the city of Cyrene specifically, there is no statue of Persephone wearing a veil or with a face completely devoid of human features." Based on this, we can conclude that the ancient Libyans unified the veil of Neith with the veil of Persephone, the goddess of death and resurrection.
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