Neith
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Neith, also spelled Nit, Net, or Neit, was an ancient Egyptian goddess, possibly of Libyan origin. She was associated with warfare, symbolized by her emblem of crossed bows, and with motherhood, as te
Bronze statuette of Neith wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt (British Museum).
Aegis of Neith, Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
Neith wearing the Deshret crown of Lower Egypt.
Ra
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Ra or Re was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun. By the Fifth Dynasty, in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, Ra had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified prima
Neith
…associated with warfare, symbolized by her emblem of crossed bows, and with motherhood, as texts refer to her as the mother of deities such as the sun god Ra and the crocodile god Sobek. As a mother goddess, she was sometimes described as the creator of the world in Egyptian creation myths and referred to…
Jewelry of Ra as a falcon with spread wings, adorned with the sun-disk and holding the ankh, the hieroglyphic symbol of life
Inlay depicting the squatting Ra with the sun-disk placed atop his falcon head
Ra in his ram-headed form traveling through the underworld in his solar barque on the subterrestrial Nile, from the copy of the Book of Gates in the tomb of Ramses I (KV16)
Ra and Imentet from the tomb of Nefertari, 13th century BC