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Nephythyss: Historical Perspective

Nephthys

Moon and Night; Heaven and Hell; Immortality; Justice;Water;Weather; Wild Birds

"Lady of the House." Vulture goddess. Personification of darkness and all that belongs to it. Very early she was a local fetish goddess who became a servant of Osiris. Daughter of Nut, sister of Isis, and wife of Seb. Among her titles are Mistress of the West, Protector of the Dead, Goddess of Darkness and Death That is Not Eternal, One of Word and Power, and Lunar Goddess. She is a member of the Ennead of the Heliopolis and one of those present at the assessment of the souls in the underworld. Earlier she was considered the personification of the edge of the Nile and the giver of the east wind.

Ann, Martha, Imel, Dorothy Myers. Goddesses in World Mythology- a Biographical Dictionary., Oxford UNiversity Press, New York, 1993.


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