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Nephthys was known in some ancient Egyptian temple theologies and cosmologies as the "Helpful Goddess" or the "Excellent Goddess". [3] These late ancient Egyptian temple texts describe a goddess who represented divine assistance and protective guardianship. Nephthys is regarded as the mother of the funerary deity Anubis (Inpu) in some myths.
The motif of Isis and Nephthys protecting Osiris or the mummy of the deceased person was very common in funerary art. [120] Khoiak celebrations made reference to, and may have ritually reenacted, Isis's and Nephthys's mourning, restoration, and revival of their murdered brother. [ 121 ]
The Mysteries of Osiris, also known as Osirism, [1] were religious festivities celebrated in ancient Egypt to commemorate the murder and regeneration of Osiris.The course of the ceremonies is attested by various written sources, but the most important document is the Ritual of the Mysteries of Osiris in the Month of Khoiak, a compilation of Middle Kingdom texts engraved during the Ptolemaic ...
Osiris (/ oʊ ˈ s aɪ r ɪ s /, from Egyptian wsjr) [a] was the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion.
Articles relating to the goddess Nephthys, her cult, and her depictions. She was associated with mourning, the night/darkness, service (specifically temples), ...
Neith / ˈ n iː. ɪ θ / (Koinē Greek: Νηΐθ, a borrowing of the Demotic form Ancient Egyptian: nt, also spelled Nit, Net, or Neit) was an ancient Egyptian deity, possibly of Libyan origin.
Set is the son of Geb, the Earth, and Nut, the Sky; his siblings are Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys. He married Nephthys and had had relationships with the foreign goddesses Anat and Astarte in some accounts.It is at least doubtful whether Set was ever held to be the father of Anubis, the child of Nephthys.
Isis, left, and Nephthys as kites near the bier of a mummy, thirteenth century BCE. In many spells in the Pyramid Texts, Isis and Nephthys help the deceased king reach the afterlife. In the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom, Isis appears still more frequently, though in these texts Osiris is credited with reviving the dead more often than ...