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between Horus and Set had been going on for eighty years, but that the dispute
remained unresolved, so the gods asked Neith for guidance. She replied that the office
should go to Horus, and added that if the gods didn’t award judgment to Horus, “I
shall become so furious that the sky will touch the ground.”
This description of the sky touching the earth as a punishment sounds like a
description of lightning, and “lightning” (i.e., Barak) was Deborah’s instrument of
retribution.
One of Neith’s most important aspects, however, was her identification in some
quarters as a mother goddess associated with creation. One of her hymns (from a wall
at the Temple of Esna) contains some startling resemblances to portions of the Song
of Deborah. The hymn describes the Creation and the birth of Re, the chief deity. And
in one passage it says:
I will strengthen him [Re] by my strength, I will make him effective by my efficacy, I
will make him vigorous by my vigor. His children will rebel against him, but they
will be beaten on his behalf and struck down on his behalf, for he is my son issued
from my body, and he will be king of this land forever. I will protect him with my arms.
By way of comparison, Deborah appears as a woman warrior and Judges 4:5 connects
her to the role of a nurturing woman. It says that she judged Israel and “dwelt
under the palm tree of Deborah.” This tree is widely understood to be the Tree of
Weeping under which a different Deborah, the nurse of Rebecca, was buried (Gen.
35:8). From earlier discussions, we saw that Rebecca corresponded to Isis and Deborah
the Nurse would have looked after the Horus-Jacob child. So, Deborah the Warrior
is linked to Deborah the Nurse, caregiver to Horus.
Neith and Deborah both acted as judges, both acted as warriors, both had connections
to nurturing, both had close connections to “lights” and both threatened to
use“lightning” for retribution.
The hymn to Neith identifies her as a mother figure in a cosmic sense and Deborah
is identified in the Song of Deborah as“a mother in Israel.” Outside of this phrase,
there is no hint in Deborah’s story that she actually has any children, indicating that“a
mother in Israel” has a symbolic connotation. The phrase is used only one other time
in the Bible and on that occasion it does mean something more than just an ordinary