Cameron also points out that whether he refers to Plato or to Crantor, the statement does not support conclusions such as Otto Muck's " Crantor came to Sais and saw there in the temple of Neith the column, completely covered with hieroglyphs, on which the history of Atlantis was recorded.

Plato drew a parallel between Athene and the ancient Libyan and Egyptian goddess Neith, a war deity who also was depicted carrying a shield.

Ancient Libya is identified as a possible source of the deity, Neith, who also was a creation deity in Ancient Egypt and, when the Greeks occupied Egypt, they said that Neith was called Athene in Greece.

As the guard of one of the canopic jars and a protector, Serket gained a strong association with Aset ( Isis ), Nebet Het ( Nephthys ), and Neith who also performed similar functions.

Neith ( or ; also spelled Nit, Net, or Neit ) was an early goddess in the Egyptian pantheon.

Neith's symbol and part of her hieroglyph also bore a resemblance to a loom, and so later in the history of Egyptian myths, she also became goddess of weaving, and gained this version of her name, Neith, which means weaver.

There also is evidence of a resurrection cult involving a woman dying and being brought back to life that was connected with Neith.

* Neith Nevelson, her granddaughter, also an artist.

He also had a son called Teti-ankh and two daughters, Iput II and Neith, both became wives to Pepi II.

Political unification proceeded gradually, perhaps over a period of a century or so as local districts established trading networks and the ability of their governments to organize agriculture labor on a larger scale increased, divine kingship may also have gained spiritual momentum as the cults of gods like Horus, Set and Neith associated with living representatives became widespread in the country.

His name is also mentioned on a stela that was discovered near the site of the pyramid of Neith, perhaps his mother .< ref > Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan.

Neith was also, in some stories, the mother of Ra, making her an avatar of the Mother Goddess who is the womb and tomb of the Sun.

She is thought to bear the name of the deity who was derived from Libya, where known as Neith, the same source sometimes identified as the parallel for Athene.

" At Sais, however, the patron goddess of the ancient cult was Neith, many of whose traits had begun to be attributed to Isis during the Greek occupation.

The temple of the goddess Neith was said to have been located to the north of the temple of Ptah.

As a mortuary goddess ( along with Isis, Neith, and Serqet ), Nephthys was one of the protectresses of the Canopic jars of the Hapi.

Neith was a goddess of war and of hunting and had as her symbol, two arrows crossed over a shield.

Sometimes Neith was pictured as a woman nursing a baby crocodile, and she was titled " Nurse of Crocodiles ".

Neith was considered to be a goddess of wisdom and was appealed to as an arbiter in the dispute between Horus and Seth.

As a goddess of weaving and the domestic arts she was a protector of women and a guardian of marriage, so royal women often named themselves after Neith, in her honor.

It was said that Neith interceded in the kingly war between Horus and Set, over the Egyptian throne, recommending that Horus rule.

Within Egypt, she was later assimilated and identified as Neith, who by that time had developed her aspects as a war goddess.

E. A. Wallis Budge argued that the spread of Christianity in Egypt was influenced by the likeness of attributes between the Mother of Christ and goddesses such as Isis and Neith.

Partheno-genesis was associated with Neith long before the birth of Christ and other properties belonging to her and Isis were transferred to the Mother of Christ by way of the apocryphal gospels as a mark of honour.

In Esna ( Letopolis ), known as Iunyt or Ta-senet, to the Ancient Egyptians, a temple was dedicated to Khnum, Neith and Heka, and other deities.

* Duamutef, the jackal-headed god representing the east, whose jar contained the stomach and was protected by the goddess Neith

In one crater chronology model, based on impacts dominated by asteroids, Neith may be old and very likely was formed during a period of more intense bombardment than today, about 3. 9 billion years ago.

The tutelary deities of Latopolis seem to have been the triad – Khnum and Neith, and Heka their offspring.

Both Khnum and Neith are referred to as creator deities in the texts at Esna.

The late Isis took on the role of many more ancient deities, including Neith, Hathor and the lion headed Sekhmet.

Other deities wore the deshret too, or were identified with it, such as the protective serpent goddess Wadjet and the creator-goddess of Sais, Neith, who often is shown wearing the Red Crown.

The name " Latopolis " is in honor of the Nile perch, Lates niloticus, the largest of the 52 species which inhabit the Nile, which was abundant in these stretches of the river in ancient times, and which appears in sculptures, among the symbols of the goddess Neith, associated by the ancient Greeks as Pallas-Athene, surrounded by the oval shield or ring indicative of royalty or divinity.

A statue of the Egyptian war goddess Neith wearing the Deshret crown of northern ( lower ) Egypt, which bears the cobra of Wadjet.

Egyptian war goddess Neith wearing the Deshret crown of northern ( lower ) Egypt, which bears the cobra of Wadjet

The Greek historian, Herodotus ( c. 484-425 BC ), noted that the Egyptian citizens of Sais in Egypt worshipped Neith and that they identified her with Athena.

The original Egyptian version of Manetho's name is now lost to us, but it is speculated to have meant " Gift of Thoth ", " Beloved of Thoth ", " Truth of Thoth ", " Beloved of Neith ", or " Lover of Neith ".

She is associated with Reshpu, ( Canaanite: Resheph ) in some texts and sometimes identified with the native Egyptian goddess Neith.

In Egyptian, her name means Land of Neith, Neith being a war goddess.

* Neith, an Egyptian goddess

For the Egyptian goddess, see Neith.

Plato said that Athena came from Africa, and if that is so, it is likely that Athena ’ s origins lie in the Egyptian goddess Neith.