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Goddesses and Gods.wps - Welcome to Our Temple

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Mut<br />

(Golden Dawn, Auramooth)<br />

The wife of Amen in Theban tradition; the word mut in Egyptian means "mother",<br />

<strong>and</strong> she was the mother of Khonsu, the moon god.<br />

See also Amen, Khons.<br />

Nefertum<br />

The youthful son of Ptah <strong>and</strong> Sekhmet, connected with the rising sun; depicted as a<br />

youth crowned with or seated upon a lotus blossom.<br />

See also Ptah.<br />

Neith<br />

(Net, Neit; Golden Dawn, Thoum-aesh-neith)<br />

A very ancient goddess of war, worshiped in the Delta; revered as a goddess of<br />

wisdom, identified with Athena by the Greeks; in later traditions, the sister of Isis,<br />

Nephthys, <strong>and</strong> Selket, <strong>and</strong> protectress of Duamutef, the god of the s<strong>to</strong>mach of the<br />

deceased. Mother of the crocodile god Sobek.<br />

See also Sobek.<br />

Nekhbet<br />

Upper Egyptian patron goddess, represented as a vulture in iconography, <strong>and</strong> often<br />

part of the crown of the pharaoh, along with her Lower Egyptian counterpart Edjo.<br />

See also Edjo.<br />

Nephthys<br />

(Nebt-het)<br />

The youngest child of Geb <strong>and</strong> Nut. The sister <strong>and</strong> wife of Set, <strong>and</strong> sister of Isis <strong>and</strong>

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