Please note, lovely readers: All of this is a work-in-progress. It will change as I continue digging through books and other sources. Do not take this as a rock-solid encyclopedic entry at any point. :)<\/i><\/p>\nattributes<\/h3>\n
– death
\n— mourning
\n—— especially mourning for Wesir with Aset and helping to reassemble Him
\n— comforting those who grieve
\n— guiding the dead
\n— funerals
\n— mummy wrappings (equated with Her hair)
\n—— weaving
\n— offering libations on behalf of the dead
\n— suckling the dead king
\n— protecting corpses and tombs
\n— protecting the canopic jars (specifically Hapy\/Hapi, one of the Four Sons of Heru, Who guarded the lungs)
\n—— could also assist and guard the living
\n– assisting childbirth (stands at the mother’s head, Aset at the feet)
\n– long-sighted (Aset seeks, Nebt-het finds)
\n– healing (Aset appeals to Her once to help heal Her infant son, Heru-sa-Aset)
\n— hunt-finding as Eye of Ra (“Nebt-het has favored me, and I have captured my opponent.”)
\n– punishing those with the Evil Eye (envy, jealousy, malice)
\n– shared attributes with Set
\n— infertility, barrenness
\n— liminality
\n—— called Teleute (End) by Hellenistic Egyptians
\n—— “ends of the earth”
\n—— “fringing on mountains”
\n—— “bordering the sea”
\n— drunkenness
\n—— “Nebt-het is drunk” was a personal name
\n—— was said to “give drunkenness without pain”
\n— violence<\/p>\n
– woman crowned with Her hieroglyph
\n– a winged human
\n– kite
\n– swallow
\n– crow
\n– vulture<\/p>\n
– sister and wife to Set
\n– sister to Aset
\n– sister to Wesir
\n– mother to Yinepu by Wesir
\n– sister to Heru-wer
\n– daughter of Nut and Geb
\n– identified with Nit (with Whom She is frequently interchanged) and Seshat (Who is also often equated with Nit)
\n– protects Heru-sa-Aset while He’s a child
\n– identified with Anuket, consort of Khnum<\/p>\n
– Lady of the House (\/Temple\/Mansion)
\n– Joyful One
\n– Good Sister (also an epithet for Hethert)
\n– Divine Sister
\n– Sister of the Gods
\n– Who Stands Behind Her Brother
\n– Mourning Woman
\n– Mooring-Post (death)
\n– Nebt-het of the Bed of Life (funerary bed)
\n– Horizon of the East
\n– Lady of Books
\n– Lady of the House of Beautification (embalming)
\n– Lady of the Invocation-Offerings of the Mound of the Shrine
\n– She Who Comes out of the Arms of Aker
\n– Of High Voice in the Earth of the Region of Silence
\n– Lady of What Is In The Netherworld
\n– Great Goddess of the West
\n— “the West calls to you as Nebt-het”
\n– Lady of the Western Country (also an epithet for Aset)
\n– Eye of Ra
\n– Useful Goddess
\n– Excellent Goddess<\/p>\n
– She was born on one of the five epagomenal days, days outside the year. She is the youngest of Her siblings.
\n– The meaning of Her name and thus her title, “Lady of the House,” was frequently used to indicate the eldest female of a family or the woman in charge of a household.
\n— The word for “house” in Her name, hw.t<\/i>, is not the more common pr<\/i>. Hw.t<\/i> is also found in Hethert’s name, potentially referring to a more celestial-oriented “house.”
\n— “… as for anyone who shall lay a finger on this pyramid and this temple which belongs to me and my ka, he will have laid his finger on the mansion of Heru* in the firmament, he will have offended [tread upon] Nebt-het everywhere.” *Hethert’s name means House of Heru, another link between Hethert and Nebt-het.
\n– Her only notable myth is the Wesir-cycle, throughout which She takes Her brother Wesir’s side and never Her husband Set’s.
\n– No amulets for Her have been found pre-dynasty 22.
\n– At the end of the New Kingdom (dynasty 19\/20), She had a temple in Seper-meru with a priesthood equal to a neighboring Set temple. She also had a temple at Kom Mer, dedicated to Nebt-het and Anuket, as well as “Nebt-het-as-Anuket.”
\n– “Living close to the shadowy zone also frequented by … Set, she was able to steal more easily into the realm of the dead.”
\n— To know a place is to have power over it.
\n— She is referred to as the “night boat” that Ra uses to make His nightly journey through the underworld.
\n– She is not just a god of death in a passive sense; She has been invoked to cause it or prayed to so that She doesn’t cause it.
\n— Pyramid Texts say to placate Her to avoid harm.
\n— Coffin Texts refer to protecting against Nebt-het’s attack.
\n— “Save me from any bad thing of this year, from any slaughter of this year, just as You have made my protection.”
\n— Book of the Dead: “… Nebt-het has done away with him … Nebt-het has put an end to my troubles.”
\n– She can give magicians control over muuet, the angry dead.
\n– Referred to as “an imitation woman with no vagina,” a reference to infertility or possibly non-normative gender; Nebt-het can be seen as androgynous or bisexual.
\n— The word “sekhyt” is better translated not as “eunuch” (common translation) but as “sexless” or “incapable of reproducing”; it is applied to Nebt-het.
\n— Some scholars consider “sekhyt” to describe any deity\/person who does not fit traditional gender roles.
\n– A potentially unreliable source claims She is a goddess of air, but also of rain and the Nile’s source waters.
\n– A few non-book sources state that Nebt-het either seduced Wesir with drugged wine to conceive Yinepu or disguised Herself as Aset to conceive Yinepu.
\n– She could give the pharaoh the power to see “that which is hidden by moonlight.”
\n– An unverified source claims that Nebt-het is the “unique protectress” of the bennu bird and received the name “Nephthys-Kheresket” in that role.<\/p>\nPrimary Sources<\/h3>\n
Nebt-Het: Lady of the House<\/i> (Tamara L. Siuda)
\nThe Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt<\/i> (Richard H. Wilkinson)
\nEgyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt<\/i> (Geraldine Pinch)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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