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Goddess Nephthys-Goddess of the Household

By: Elizabeth “Starlightowl” Hibel

from the manual

• “Areas of Influence: Nephthys the Egyptian Goddess symbolized the transitional nature of death. In one Egyptian myth she helped Isis collect the scattered limbs of Osiris to reconstitute his body.
• In her funery role she was considered a fearsome but necessary companion to assisting the dead through the different levels of the afterlife.
• She was also the Goddess of mourning, comforting the relatives of the deceased. These wailing mourners were described as the “hawks of Nephthys”.
• This Goddess was the guardian of Hapi who protected the Canopic jar which contained the lungs.

• She protected the Pharaoh in life as well as in death, incinerating his enemies with her fiery breath.
• This Deity also gave the Pharaoh the power to see that ” which is hidden by moonlight,” linking this Goddess to the powers of darkness and magic and making her a popular Deity with witches and magicians.

• As comforter, she stood at the birth-bed to offer comfort and help with the birth of new born children – Isis was seen as the midwife.
• This Goddess was worshipped by nursing mothers as she was considered to be the nursing mother of Horus and the Pharaoh himself.

• The two sisters were often together, only being able to be told apart by the hieroglyph on their heads.”