Neith

Primeval creatrix, goddess of war, weaving and wisdom.

Parentage

• parent: Nun

Children

• Sobek

Domains

• war hunting
• weaving
• creation

Powers

• Weaving the world into being as primeval creatrix
• Settling the contendings of Horus and Set by counsel
• Guard the dead and the canopic viscera with Selket and her sisters

Epithets

• mwt nṯrw egyptian · mut netjeru · cultMother of the gods; the primeval creatrix who bore RaEsna temple cosmogony; Contendings of Horus and Seth (primary)
• nbt sꜣw egyptian · nebet Sau · cultLady of Sais; Neith of her great Delta cult-citySais temple texts; Plat. Tim. 21e; Hdt. 2.59 (Athena = Neith) (primary)

Relations

• sibling: AtumFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Nun) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: KhnumFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Nun) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: RaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Nun) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• interpretatio: AthenaReciprocal of greek_hesiod_athena.interpretatio — Plato: the patron of Sais is 'in Egyptian Neith, in Greek Athena.' Preserves the armed weaver-goddess of wisdom; breaks on Neith's primeval creatrix role — Athena creates nothing, being herself created.Plato, Timaeus 21e (primary); Herodotus, Histories 2.59, 2.62 (Sais) (primary)
• ally: SerqetReciprocal of egyptian_serqet.ally — Scorpion funerary-protector goddess; with Neith forms one of the two guardian pairs of the canopic/sarcophagus quartet. No genealogy attested.Pyramid Texts and canopic/sarcophagus protection formulae pairing the four tutelary goddesses Isis, Nephthys, Neith and Serqet (primary)

Sources

• existence: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 510 (primary)