Neith the deity of war, hunting& weaving in ancient Egypt
She was viewed as a protector of the dead, with her symbol two arrows crossed over a shield shooting her arrows into the enemies of the dead. Her name resembled a loom the imagined tool with which the world was woven by the sole creator. As an attribute of the One God, she was the opener of the cosmic and underworld pathways for the sun star, the image of the unseen and limitless sky. she is the portion of the cosmos which is not seen in which the sun is reborn daily below the horizon. In the pyramid texts, she is paired with Selket as braces for the sky or two support for the heavens.
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