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Nephthys or Nebet-Het in ancient Egyptian (Ancient Greek: Νέφθυς) was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. A member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis in Egyptian mythology , she was a daughter of Nut and Geb .
Plutarch described the statue of a seated and veiled goddess in the Egyptian city of Sais. [45] [46] He identified the goddess as "Athena, whom [the Egyptians] consider to be Isis." [45] However, Sais was the cult center of the goddess Neith, whom the Greeks compared to their goddess Athena, and could have been the goddess that Plutarch spoke ...
Inari, Shinto goddess of sake. Li Bai, Chinese god of wine and sage of poetry. Liber, a Roman god of wine. Liu Ling, Chinese god of wine. One of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; Mayahuel, Mexican goddess of pulque. Methe, Greek personification of drinking and drunkenness. Nephthys, Egyptian goddess of beer. Ninkasi, Sumerian goddess of beer.
Nephthys – A member of the Ennead, the consort of Set, who mourned Osiris alongside Isis [46] Nepit – A goddess of Grain, female counterpart of Neper [47] Nut – A sky goddess, a member of the Ennead [48] Pakhet – A Lioness goddess mainly worshiped in the area around Beni Hasan [49] Renenutet – An agricultural goddess [50]
Articles relating to the goddess Nephthys, her cult, and her depictions. She was associated with mourning, the night/darkness, service (specifically temples), ...
Next, Shu and Tefnut coupled to produce the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut, who defined the limits of the world. [20] Geb and Nut in turn gave rise to four children, who represented the forces of life: Osiris, god of fertility and regeneration; Isis, goddess of motherhood; Set, the god of chaos; and Nephthys, the goddess of protection ...
Anuket, goddess of the Nile and nourisher of the fields. Bairthy, goddess of water, was depicted with a small pitcher on her head, holding a long spear-like sceptre. Hapi, god of the annual flooding of the Nile. Khnum, god of the source of the Nile. Nephthys, goddess of rivers, death, mourning, the dead, and night.
The Ennead or Great Ennead was a group of nine deities in Egyptian mythology worshipped at Heliopolis: the sun god Atum; his children Shu and Tefnut; their children Geb and Nut; and their children Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. [2] The Ennead sometimes includes Horus the Elder, an ancient form of the falcon god, not the son of Osiris and Isis.