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.

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.

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

" 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.

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.

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

Neith also was one of the three tutelary deities of the ancient Egyptian southern city of Ta-senet or Iunyt now known as Esna ( Arabic: إسنا ), Greek: Λατόπολις ( Latopolis ), or πόλις Λάτων ( Polis Laton ), or Λάττων ( Laton ); Latin: Lato ), which is located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor, in the modern Qena Governorate.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It is thought that Neith may correspond to the goddess Tanit, worshipped in north Africa by the early Berber culture ( existing from the beginnings of written records ) and through the first Punic culture originating from the founding of Carthage by Dido.

His protector is the goddess Neith.

In each corner a protective goddess ( Isis, Nephthys, Serket and Neith ) guards the body.

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

In pre-Dynastic Egypt, nt ( Neith ) was already the goddess of weaving ( and a mighty aid in war as well ).

The city's patron goddess was Neith, whose cult is attested as early as the 1st Dynasty, ca.

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

* Neith, an Egyptian goddess

For the Egyptian goddess, see Neith.

A visit to a shrine of the goddess Neith is recorded on several tablets from his reign.

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.

In Irish mythology Neit ( Néit, Nét, Neith ) was a god of war.

Like Athena, Neith was a goddess of war and weaving, associating the card with the tangle of ordered threads that make up the fabric of communal life.

Plato's Timaeus and Critias state that in the temple of Neith at Sais, there were secret halls containing historical records which had been kept for 9, 000 years.

Of these queens, Neith, Iput, and Udjebten each had their own minor pyramids and mortuary temples as part of the king's own pyramid complex in Saqqara.

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

It is recorded that Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales and Lord of Aberffraw had deposited this crown () and other items ( such as the Cross of Neith ) with the monks at Cymer Abbey for safekeeping at the start of his final campaign in 1282.

The Egyptians identified her with Neith as the mother of the god Ra.

In art, Neith sometimes appears as a woman with a weavers ’ shuttle atop her head, holding a bow and arrows in her hands.

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.

* Neith Nevelson, her granddaughter, also an artist.

Viola battles him once more, with her frame Neith using broken pieces of itself as weapons, but is defeated and killed when a leftover bomb blows her out of the colony and into Jupiter's atmosphere.

Viola is seen piloting her Orbital Frame, Neith, and flying towards Antilia Colony, the setting of the first Zone of the Enders game.

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.

Reliefs showing Khnum with his consort Neith in her Lion Headed form from the Temple of Esna

Merneith ’ s name means Beloved by Neith and her stela contains symbols of that deity.