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Why Became the Ancient Egyptian Goddess Neith a Protective of the Dead?

by mrvaldesogo | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"

In Ancient Egypt Isis, Nephtys, Neith and Serket formed a team of four goddesses, who protected the caponic jars containing the organs of the dead. For that reason Egyptians depicted these four goddesses in the canopic chests and sometimes also in sarcophagi. We know...

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