. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 144. Neith. THE OTHER PRINCIPAL GODS 143 days she, as daughter and eye of the sun-god, was comparedwith the celestial divinities. The Greeks and Romans identi-fied her with Eileithyia-Lucina, the lunar goddess who pro-tected birth, possibly because she later watched over Osirisand his resurrection; but distinct connexion of this deity withthe moon cannot be proved from Egyp-tian sources. Her role as wife of theNile-god (p. 46) is evidently in accordwith a very old tradition which madethe Egyptian course of that river beginat the capital, situated very nea
. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 144. Neith. THE OTHER PRINCIPAL GODS 143 days she, as daughter and eye of the sun-god, was comparedwith the celestial divinities. The Greeks and Romans identi-fied her with Eileithyia-Lucina, the lunar goddess who pro-tected birth, possibly because she later watched over Osirisand his resurrection; but distinct connexion of this deity withthe moon cannot be proved from Egyp-tian sources. Her role as wife of theNile-god (p. 46) is evidently in accordwith a very old tradition which madethe Egyptian course of that river beginat the capital, situated very near thesouthern frontier, since the two southern-most nomes must at that time havebeen populated by Nubian tribes. Thisseems again to explain her connexionwith the birth of Osiris as the a Greek transcription S/ii^t?referred to the name Nekhbet is opento question (see under Semtet). Nemanus: see Nehem(t)-auit. Nesret (the Flaming, Fiery [Ser-pent]; p. 26) was a deity whose local-ization is doubtful, but who was lateridentified with the
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