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In Ancient Egyptian texts, the "Two Ladies" (Ancient Egyptian: nbtj, sometimes anglicized Nebty) was a religious epithet for the goddesses Wadjet and Nekhbet, two deities who were patrons of the ancient Egyptians and worshiped by all after the unification of its two parts, Lower Egypt, and Upper Egypt. When the two parts of Egypt were joined ...
Nekhbet (/ ˈ n ɛ k ˌ b ɛ t /; [1] also spelt Nekhebit) is an early predynastic local goddess in Egyptian mythology, who was the patron of the city of Nekheb (her name meaning of Nekheb). Ultimately, she became the patron of Upper Egypt and one of the two patron deities (alongside Wadjet ) for all of Ancient Egypt when it was unified.
The Nebty name was symbolically linked to the two most important goddesses of Ancient Egyptian kingship: Nekhbet and Wadjet. Whilst Nekhbet (Egypt. Nekhebety; "she from Nekheb") was the "mistress of Upper Egypt", her pendant Wadjet (Egypt. Wadyt; "she who thrives" or simply "lady of the green") was the "mistress of Lower Egypt".
English: The logo of Nekhbet – Egyptian deity (A representation of the Egyptian Goddess Nekhbet as a vulture spreading her wings and wearing the Atef crown, as she was depicted in The Tomb of Ramesses III, 1155 BCE. This image contains some artistic liberties so that Wikipedia readers can tell her apart from the rest of the Egyptian Deities.)
Mut nursing the pharaoh, Seti I, in relief from the second hypostyle hall of Seti's mortuary temple in Abydos. Mut (Ancient Egyptian: mut; also transliterated as Maut and Mout) was a mother goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt.
The cobra image of Wadjet with the vulture image of Nekhbet represent the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt. The Uraeus ( / j ʊəˈr iː ə s / ) [ 1 ] or Ouraeus ( Ancient Greek : Οὐραῖος , Greek pronunciation: [οὐραῖος] ⓘ ; Egyptian : jꜥrt , "rearing cobra", plural: Uraei ) is the stylized, upright form of an ...
Kom Ombo, Goddess Nekhbet's staff with shen ring. The shen ring is most often seen carried by the falcon god Horus, but was also carried by the vulture goddess Nekhbet.It was used as early as the Third Dynasty where it can be seen in the reliefs from Djoser's Step Pyramid complex.
Nephthys could also appear as one of the goddesses who assists at childbirth. An ancient Egyptian myth preserved in the Papyrus Westcar recounts the story of Isis, Nephthys, Meskhenet, and Heqet as traveling dancers in disguise, assisting the wife of a priest of Amun-Re as she prepares to bring forth sons who are destined for fame and fortune.