Neper

Neper is what is in the granary. He is drawn with grains marked on his body, he dies when the crop is cut and comes back when it is sown, and that pattern made him easy to fold into the Osiris material — the dead god who is also the seed is one of the oldest ideas Egypt has, and the 'corn mummies' packed with sprouting barley are it made literal. He has a female counterpart, Nepit, which is the ordinary Egyptian way of saying that a thing is complete.

Domains

• harvest

Relations

• counterpart of: NepitHis female counterpart, the same grain in the other gender — the Egyptian habit that also produced Amaunet, Naunet, Hauhet and Kauket.Reference treatment naming Nepit as Neper's female counterpart. (secondary)
• consort of: TaytRecorded with the hedge the source carries: the reference literature says his consort *may* have been Tayt, and this record does not upgrade that to a fact.Reference treatment of Neper, in which his consort may have been Tayt, the goddess of weaving. (secondary)

Sources

• Neper is the Egyptian god of grain, counterpart of the goddess Nepit, possibly consort of Tayt, whose death and return follow the agricultural year.: Reference treatments of Neper, Nepit and Tayt. (secondary)