My lady Nit, please accept my humblest of apologies that I did not celebrate Your festival yesterday. May the research I do on You now be an offering, however small.<\/i><\/p>\n
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 will be doing similar information-compilations on other deities in my sphere of interest, as well; Nit just happens to be first.<\/p>\n
attributes<\/i><\/p>\n
– war
\n— makes warriors’ weapons
\n— protects dead bodies
\n— weaves the bandages and shrouds worn by mummies
\n— protects jackal-headed Duamutef (one of the Four Sons of Heru Who guards the canopic jar that stores the stomach) with arrows
\n— Eye of Ra
\n– hunting
\n– weaving
\n— great creatrix
\n— protector of women
\n— guardian of marriage
\n— weaves the bandages and shrouds worn by mummies
\n– the primordial waters of creation (Nun)
\n— great creatrix
\n— genderless \/ he-she
\n— associated with the Nile perch\/lates<\/i>-fish
\n— mother of crocodiles and snakes
\n– wisdom
\n– virgin goddess
\n— great creatrix
\n— created childbirth<\/p>\n
forms<\/i><\/p>\n
– human wearing the red crown, a weaver’s shuttle on Her head, or two arrows crossed over a shield
\n– lioness-headed
\n– crocodile-headed
\n– snake
\n– cow<\/p>\n
symbols<\/i><\/p>\n
– two crossed arrows over a shield (possibly originally a click beetle, found near water)
\n– Her symbol and part of Her hieroglyph resembles a loom
\n– Egyptian goad (cow prod)
\n– red crown of Lower Egypt
\n– when referred to as creatrix, Her name is written with the hieroglyph of an ejaculating phallus<\/p>\n
relationships<\/i><\/p>\n
– mother of Ra
\n– mother of Ap-p (by spitting into the Nun)
\n– mother of Sobek
\n– wife of Khnum
\n– wife of Set (Old Kingdom)
\n– wife of Sobek (after Set)
\n– mother of Twtw
\n– may be identified with Tanit, a goddess worshipped in north Africa by Berbers (Barbary…)
\n— Tanit is related to Astarte\/Ishtar (Phoenician)
\n– assimilated Anouke (Asia Minor, worshipped by immigrants to Egypt)
\n– identified with Athena
\n– identified with Nebt-het and Seshat
\n– equated with Nunet
\n– associated with other cow deities, primarily Nut and Hethert
\n– associated with other weaving deities, primarily Tatet
\n– associated with Yinepu and Wepwawet (“Opener of the Ways”)
\n– equated with Mehet-Weret, the Great Flood<\/p>\n
epithets<\/i><\/p>\n
– Who Illuminated The First Face
\n– Mistress of the Bow
\n– Ruler of Arrows
\n– Great Cow Who Gave Birth to Ra
\n– She Who Saw Tem’s Birth
\n– Nit the Great
\n– Nurse of Crocodiles
\n– Opener of the Ways
\n– The Mother and Father of All Things
\n– The Eldest
\n– Mother of the Gods
\n– Mistress of Mendes<\/p>\n
notes<\/i><\/p>\n
– A great festival, called the Feast of Lamps, was held annually in her honor and, according to Herodotus, her devotees burned a multitude of lights in the open air all night during the celebration.
\n– Primary cult in Sais with Twtw and Tapsais.
\n– One of three tutelary deities in Ta-senet\/Iunyt\/Esna.
\n– Part of Ogdoad mythology.
\n– Four goddesses guard the dead and the Four Sons of Heru: Nebt-het, Nit, Aset, and Serqet. (And all four of them are in my lineup…)
\n– In the Contendings of Heru and Set, Nit recommended Heru-sa-Aset over Set as king to replace Wesir and recommended Set be given land and two wives (Anat, Astarte) in compensation.
\n– Garnet is considered to be associated with Her. (My birthstone.)
\n– Pyramid Texts: “May the terror of you come into being … like the Nit-crown which is on the King of Lower Egypt.”
\n– One of the oldest deities with a very widespread cult and sphere of influence\/worship.<\/p>\n
Barbara Lesko, The Great Goddesses of Egypt<\/i>:<\/p>\n Unique Goddess, mysterious and great who came to be in the beginning and caused everything to come to be . . . the divine mother of Re, who shines on the horizon . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Proclus (412-485 AD) wrote that the adyton of the temple of Nit in Sais carried the following inscription:<\/p>\n I am the things that are, that will be, and that have been. No one has ever laid open the garment by which I am concealed. The fruit which I brought forth was the sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Primary Sources:<\/p>\n The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt<\/i> (Richard H. Wilkinson) My lady Nit, please accept my humblest of apologies that I did not celebrate Your festival yesterday. May the research I do on You now be an offering, however small. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[47,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEgyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt<\/i> (Geraldine Pinch)
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"