Goddess Neith: The Virgin Mother of the World !!!
Neith, Virgin
Mother of the World
The worship of the
Egyptian goddess Neith is traceable to atleast around 7,000 years.She is also
the mother of our Crocodile God Sobek.
“ It is important in discussing Neith as autogene, or
self-created Virgin Mother...first to establish her preeminence in the Egyptian
pantheon. Neith...was one of the oldest of all Egyptian deities and one of the
most important divinities during the early historic period. There is strong
evidence that her worship was widespread in predynastic times... She is first
documented iconographically in the last phase of the predynastic period (c.
fourth millennium B.C.E..”.[
Dr.
Marguerite Rigoglioso ,“Virgin Mother
Goddesses of Antiquity ”]
Greek Plutarch refers
to an inscription on her statue in Sais :
"I am everything that has been, and that is, and that shall be, and no one has ever lifted my garment (peplos)…”
"I am everything that has been, and that is, and that shall be, and no one has ever lifted my garment (peplos)…”
Neith
(Nit, Net, Neit) was an ancient goddess of war and weaving. She was the patron
goddess of the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and
the city of Zau (Sais, in the 5th Nome of Lower Egtpt) in the
Delta. According to the Iunyt (Esna) cosmology, Neith was the creator of the
world and the mother of the sun, Ra. This made her the mother
of all of the gods and connected her with Nun (a member of the Ogdoad of
Hermopolis who was the personification of the primeaval waters of chaos from
which Ra emerged at the beginning of time). However, she was also credited with
creating Apep, the
great serpent and the sworn enemy of Ra, by spitting into the waters of Nun.
Robert Mascharan
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