Neith spat into the primordial waters of Nun and from her saliva Apophis was born, the chaos serpent emerging as an unintended consequence of the creator goddess's act.
⚠ The Esna temple cosmogony uniquely attributes Apophis's origin to Neith's spittle; most Egyptian traditions treat Apophis as a primordial being existing before creation, with no parent.
Neith is the mother of Ra in Saite theology, the primordial goddess who gave birth to the sun god from the waters of chaos before any other deity existed.
⚠ The Saite tradition claiming Neith as Ra's mother is a Late Period theological development. The dominant Heliopolitan cosmogony gives Ra no mother, having him emerge self-created from the primordial waters.
Neith was the mother of the crocodile god Sobek, her creative power encompassing the dangerous, fertile forces of the Nile that Sobek personified.
Isis, Nephthys, Neith, and Serket stood at the four corners of Osiris's bier during his resurrection, each goddess shielding one side from the forces of chaos, a vigil repeated for every pharaoh's passage into the afterlife.
Neith guards the canopic jar of Duamutef containing the mummified stomach, her protective power stationed at the eastern corner of the canopic shrine alongside Isis, Nephthys, and Serket.
Neith of Sais and Athena were identified as the same goddess by both Greek and Egyptian sources, with Egyptian priests at Sais telling Solon that their city's patron Neith was the same as Athena, and shared temples honoring both names in the Ptolemaic period.
When the gods could not resolve the dispute over Egypt's throne, Neith ruled that Horus should inherit his father Osiris's kingship, her ancient authority lending decisive weight to the verdict.
Neith emerged from the primordial waters of Nun as a self-created being, speaking the first words of creation and weaving the world into existence before the differentiation of the cosmos.
Neith's judgment in the Contendings awarded the throne to Horus over Set, but she decreed that Set be compensated with foreign lands and divine wives to prevent him from disrupting cosmic order.
In the Contendings of Horus and Set, Thoth writes a letter to Neith on behalf of the Ennead seeking her judgment, her response arriving as the decisive verdict that awards the throne to Horus.
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