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Updated: May 11, 2025
Is sometimes represented as a youth with the side-lock, standing on a crocodile. Is represented under the first two forms as a man, hawk-headed, wearing the double crown of Egypt; in the latter as a child with the side- lock. Adored at Thebes. NEITH: A woman draped, holding sometimes a bow and arrows, crowned with the crown of Lower Egypt. She presided over war, and the loom. Worshipped at Thebes.
But their boat sped on before the north-wind; they left the city of the dead behind them and passed the enormous dikes built to protect the city of Menes from the violence of the floods; the city of the Pharaohs came in sight, dazzlingly bright with the myriads of flames which had been kindled in honor of the goddess Neith, and when at last the gigantic temple of Ptah appeared, the most ancient building of the most ancient land, the spell broke, their tongues were loosed, and they burst out into loud exclamations of delight.
This brought back all the old painful recollections in full force, and at the same time his clouded memory reminded him, though without any clearness of detail, that Amasis had deceived both Nitetis and himself. He cursed the dead king and furiously demanded to be taken to the temple of Neith, where his mummy was laid.
Athenagoras informs us that Neith or the Athene of the Greeks was supposed to be Wisdom passing and diffusing itself through all things. Hence it is manifest that she was thought to be the Soul of the World; for such is precisely the character sustained by that mythological personage." The same writer says further: "Ovid gives a similar character to Venus.
The male God associated with her was Naith, and according to Higgins represented "the opposite of Neith." In Rivers of Life is observed a reference to the Assyrian Goddess Hea by Lucian. In a note Forlong says that no doubt Hea is the same as Haiya or Haya. In other words she represents the universal hermaphrodite the creative principle throughout Nature, which was originally worshipped as female.
The daring and independent ruler will soon become a mere tool, by means of which the priests can work their will. "He spends hours in the temple of Neith, praying and offering sacrifices; a number of workmen are employed there in building a tomb for his mummy, and the same number at Memphis in levelling the temple which the Greeks have begun building to Apollo.
Amasis will go on in this manner until the strangers drive him from his throne and country, and plunder and make slaves of us poor creatures, as the evil Hyksos, those scourges of Egypt, and the black Ethiopians did, in the days of old." "The seventh boat!" shouted the tailor. "May my protectress Neith, the great goddess of Sais, destroy me, if I can understand the king," complained the priest.
"My neck is the neck of the divine goddess Isis. "My hands are the hands of Ba-neb-Tattu. "My fore-arms are the fore-arms of Neith, the Lady of Saïs. "My backbone is the backbone of Suti. "My phallus is the phallus of Osiris. "My chest is the chest of the Mighty one of terror. "My belly and back are the belly and back of Sekhet. "My buttocks are the buttocks of the Eye of Horus.
It lies next to the porch leading into the temple of the goddess Neith, the protectress of Sais.
Yet the world must heed these daughters of sorrow, from the primal black All-Mother of men down through the ghostly throng of mighty womanhood, who walked in the mysterious dawn of Asia and Africa; from Neith, the primal mother of all, whose feet rest on hell, and whose almighty hands uphold the heavens; all religion, from beauty to beast, lies on her eager breasts; her body bears the stars, while her shoulders are necklaced by the dragon; from black Neith down to
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