#Nephthys

[cj-k]

So I made Seth and Nephthys a biological baby and Anubis is an older brother, cuz why not?

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Goddess Isis (left), Goddess Nephthys (right), and the God Anubis as he embalms the deceased.

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Relief of Osiris and Nephthys

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1332-1292 BC. Tomb of Maya and Merit, Saqqara necropolis.

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[headlessmage]

Lady of the House, Lady of Respite,

I kneel in your presence,

A thousand offerings left at your feet!

Last born of the shining ones,

Great Mistress over Life,

I praise you always!

You who are humanity’s silent companion,

You who bring us comfort and care,

May we serve you always!

Lady of Mourning, Lady of Joy,

May your heart be satisfied on every Zep Tepi!

[godslavecomic]

I'm Very Normal about Set as a character. ⚡️GODSLAVE⚡️ is an action/urban fantasy story, featuring a girl's journey into Egyptian mythology in the modern day.

Read from the beginning here⚡️⚡️

[dalberadiata]

Más fanarts de Ennead

Dios, cómo amo ese manhwa

Osiris mi varón (digan lo que quieran de él, pero casa vez que aparece avanza la trama, ya con eso tiene mi respeto jajaja)

[zolimarts]

One of my favorite families in mythology. Whether it's because of the misfortunes that follow them, or those they cause by their own hand cough cough Seth cough cough

Most of the Myths I like involve them directly or indirectly, so I wanted to make their designs as far away from the modern common imagination as possible (I didn't achieve it with Anubis, so-…) but don't take that last part too seriously, I tried… it's more than enough for me lol

+ I don't care if the myths say that they have, in the best of cases, a very complicated family relationship , I LOVE THEM! AND THEY DESERVE HAPPINESS!!!

some bb Anubis content

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Nephthys, winged and with a yellow sun-disc, on a fragment of a yellow coffin.

When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

Where: Museo Barracco, Roma

[maimoncat]

I wanted to post this a long time ago already, but now we finally are here.

Das Götterpaar von Seth (Sutech oder Setech) und Nephthys (Neb-Hut, Nebet-Hut) hat mich immer fasziniert. Zum einem, da wir keine Ahnung haben, was das Settier, die Tiergestalt des Wüstengottes, sein soll. Zum anderen, da Nephthys keine vollkommen klare Rolle in der Mythologie hatte und immer andere Gottheiten, wie ihree Schwester Isis (Asat) unterstützte. Auch ihre eheliche Beziehung ist undeutlich: Nephthys ist zwar oft and den Oasen die Frau des Seth, jedoch steht sie in den Osirismythen auf Isis and Horus Seite, die der Sturmgott bekämpft. In Plutarchs Version der Sage wünscht sich Nephthys, als Muttergöttin, ein Kind, kann aber keines von ihrem unfruchtbaren Mann krigen. Das führt zu einer Affäre mit Osiris, aus der der Totengott Anubis (auch Inpu) geboren wird und die zur Trennung der zwei Oasengötter führt. Seth selbst war zwar oft der absolute Bösewicht der Ägyptischen Mythologie, da er Feind des Pharaogottes Horus (auch Hor) war, aber auch er wurde als Kriegsgott und Schutzpatron der Verwandten und Reisenden oft angebetet. Im Sonnenmythos kämpft er an Res Seite gegen die Urschlange Apophis. Mein Interesse für die beiden wurde auch durch @kenyizsuartblog s Tutenstein Fanfic, „Banished by Mistake“ (Bbm) wieder auferweckt.

Sono sempre stato accattivato dalla coppia divina di Set (anche Sutech o wedja) e Nefti (Neb-Het, Nebt-Het). Da un lato perché non abbiamo la più pallida idea di che animale dovrebbe reappresentare il dio del deserto. Dall’altro, perché perché Nefti non ha un ruolo del tutto definito, se non come compagna di altre divinità, come sua sorella Iside (Asat). Anche il loro rapporto coniugale è ambiguo: se Nefti appare spesso come moglie di Set alle Oasi, nei miti di Osiride lei prende  le parti di Iside e Horo (anche Her), contro cui combatte il dio della tempesta. Nella versione di Plutarco del mito Nefti, come dea madre, desidera ardentemente un figlio, ma il suo marito sterile non glielo può dare. Questo causa una tresca con Osiride, dalla quale nascerà il dio dei morti Anubi (Inpu) e che prterà alla separazione dei due dei delle oasi. Set stesso ha quasi sempre connotati negativi, dato che è nemico del dio-faraone Horo, ma venivaanche venerato spesso come dio guerriero e protettore di parenti e viandanti stranieri. Nel mito del viaggio solare, lui combatte fianco a fianco con ra contro la serpe primordiale Apopi. Il mio interesse per questi due è stato anche ridestato dalla fanfiction su Tutenstein di @kenyizsuartblog , “banished by mistake” (bbm)

I’ve always been captivated by the divine couple of Nephtys(Nebet-Het or Nebet-Hut) and Seth (Sutekh or Setekh). For one thing, we ave no clue what animal the stormgod is supposed to be. And Nephtys has no definitive role herself, but rather couples with different deities to asssist them, like her sister Isis (Asat). Their marriage is also quite ambiguous: while Nephtys is Seth’s wife in Oases, in the Osiris myths she sides with Isis and Horus (Heru), who fight against the desert god. In Plutarch’s version of the tale Nephtys, as a mother goddess, wishes to have a child, but her sterile husband cannot provide her with one. This brings about an affaire with Osiris, from which the underworld god Anubis (Inpw) is born, which leads to the separation of the two Oasis gods. Seth himself  was oftentimes the ultimate villain of egyptian mythology, as the sworn enemy of the pharao god Horus, but he was also worshipped as a strong wargod and a protector of relatives and foreign travellers. In the myth of the sun’s journey through the netherworld, he fight side by side with Ra against the primordial serpent Apep. @kenyizsuartblog ‘s Tutenstein fic “Banished by mistake” (BBM) is what reawakened my interest for these two

Original sketch under the cut:

[milky-rozen]

What is Isis and Nephthys sisterhood like? They’ve always been depicted as very close in lore. What’s your interpretation?

Heya!

So, if we're talking about mythology, what’s interesting about their relationship is that, despite being both married to two male gods, their primary partnership was with each other. Alongside Horus and Seth, Isis and Nephthys are one of the only same-sex dyads depicted in Ancient Egyptian iconography, which was quite the exceptional treatment!

Another fascinating aspect of their relationship is that they form a triad that doesn’t follow the classic "father-mother-son" equation - that is, if you don't consider the Abydos triad, of course! - instead, it features Osiris as the husband and the two sisters as his wives (or something, cause we don't really know exactly what Nephthys is supposed to represent here. Is she a second wife? A lover? A very supportive sister-in-law? We can't tell for sure, but at least she's with her sister!). While there are depictions of Isis and Nephthys with their respective partners, they are most often shown together, particularly in funerary contexts.

Based on these facts, one could imagine that their relationship is very close and almost unbreakable. I mean, if you think about it, we don’t have any evidence suggesting that Isis and Nephthys argued about the infamous nightly episode with Osiris! So, I’d say they’re just fine - or maybe they simply communicate well, which is why they’ve stayed together despite that incident! -

Jokes aside, I like to think that they can't just be the same without each other's company. They're each other's biggest emotional support and best friend. If something goes wrong, they know they can always count on each other!

By the way, I'm leaving an old drawing of them here cause it depicts exactly my interpretation of their relationship (even if the ones you see here are from my own project lol).

[cj-k]

femm seth

[deinemuddalutscht]

Just me rambling about the husbands of Nephthys

The belief that Nephthys was the wife of Set largely comes from the writings of the Greek author Plutarch. Plutarch was a prolific writer and a priest at Delphi who likely obtained his information about Egypt during his travels to Alexandria. Although he accurately recounts much of Egyptian mythology, his writings are influenced by his philosophical views. By the time Plutarch wrote in the 2nd century CE, religious traditions had begun to merge, especially in Alexandria, where the cult of Isis was extremely popular.

Plutarch recounts a story in which Osiris unknowingly fathers a child with Nephthys, believing she was his wife, Isis. Nephthys, afraid of her husband Set's reaction, abandons the child, and Isis later finds and raises him as Anubis, who becomes her guardian. Interestingly, Plutarch also refers to a tradition where Nut’s children have different fathers: Horus and Osiris are Ra's sons, Isis is Thoth's daughter, and Nephthys and Set are the only children born in wedlock with Geb. Wikipedia states that Horus the Elder is a form of Horus that is the son of Geb and Nut, but this is only partly true: This claim comes from Plutarch, but Plutarch also claims that Horus the Elder is a son of Osiris and Isis, conceived by Isis and Osiris in the womb of Nut, and then born alongside the other children. Essentially, Plutarch tried to explain the multiple origin stories of Horus by stating that Osiris and Isis had supposedly three sons, all named Horus, and early Egyptologists somehow accepted this explanation. According to Plutarch, the three half-brothers also have different hair colors: Osiris has black hair, Horus white, and Set red. Additionally, Plutarch recalls a festival where Egyptians insulted red-haired people to mock Set's power on Earth. This has nothing to do with Nephthys’ marriages, but it's too amusing not to mention.

Overall, Plutarch paints a rather negative picture of Nephthys: Not only is she an adulterous wife who cheats on her husband, but she also has nonconsensual sex with Osiris, abandons her child in the desert, and even betrays Isis by revealing where she is hiding with her dead husband and child to Set. Plutarch also refers to Nephthys as Aphrodite throughout the text.

While many early sources link Nephthys and Set as a couple, there is little concrete evidence from ancient Egyptian texts directly confirming their marriage. Osiris, Nephthys, Set, Horus, and Isis are the core figures in the Osiris myth, and they all interact with one another inside th myths, except for Nephthys and Set. However, they are paired in other contexts, such as in descriptions of the Ennead. For example, in the Pyramid Texts, Nephthys and Set are paired together for specific roles, but they are not explicitly called a married couple. Some texts from later periods refer to Nephthys as Set’s wife, or mention Set having a wife, though these accounts are often times ambiguous and don't firmly establish this as a widespread early tradition. Therefore the tradition reported by Plutarch, in which Nephthys is the mother of Anubis by Osiris, finds little support in indigenous Egyptian sources, though it was likely not entirely invented by him.

As far as I can tell, we currently have no Ancient Egyptian texts that name Nephthys as Anubis’ mother, either by Set or Osiris. I know Wikipedia lists Anubis and Wepwawet as sons of Nephthys and Set, but no actual source is given for this information. Anubis is sometimes regarded as the son of Nephthys and Ra, though. The only real Egyptian source for Nephthys abandoning Anubis that I could find is in the Papyrus Jumilhac (“Nephthys, her bravery existed with him [Horus]. She had him [Horus] hidden as a small child in papyrus. His name is Anubis and his image is as Mehit-imyut.”). However, we should note that it is unclear whether Nephthys hid her son Horus-Anubis as Isis hid her child, or if she helps Isis hide the baby Horus-Anubis. In this text, Nephthys hiding her child is framed positively, not as the action of an adulterous woman abandoning her illegitimate child for selfish reasons.

Nephthys was sometimes regarded as Osiris’ wife in the underworld, just as Isis was on earth. Osiris and Nephthys are depicted as a couple in some contexts, as seen in the statue of Ramose from the Louvre (E 16378). Nephthys is sometimes given the title Onnophret, the feminine form of the Osirian epithet Onnophris or wn.nfr, meaning "the beautiful existent."

Interestingly, an erotic spell from the 4th century, mostly written in Greek with some Old Coptic passages, tells the story of how Isis goes to Thoth (specifically identified as her father in this version) and tells him about Osiris sleeping with Nephthys. Thoth then gives her a love spell to win Osiris back. However, it is unclear whether Isis is upset about Osiris taking a lover or a second wife. Alternatively, Nephthys could even be Osiris' first wife in this scenario, with Isis as the jealous sister.

There is one text I found that names Nephthys and Set as a married couple within the context of the Osiris myth. It's called the Ptolemaic Berlin Papyrus 8278, and it contains a story that goes as follows:

The first nine lines of Pap. Berlin P. 8278 are quite damaged. However, the main topic is the expulsion of Set from Egypt. The first readable paragraph tells how Set will be kept away from Egypt for the rest of his life. The text refers to him as a donkey, which is a very late interpretation of the Set animal. Then, there is a dialogue between the men of Horus and the men of Set. They discuss the punishment inflicted on Set. The men of Set would like the men of Horus to set him free. Set is described as copulating, drunk, and dead of thirst. From an explanatory gloss, we learn that Set went to an oasis with the Eye of Horus and swallowed it, leading to his drunkenness. Then, an unidentified speaker states that he has shown the way to Horus. After this, the god Thoth insists that Set is drunk and accuses him of harming Osiris. It is mentioned that Set "has been seized" and "has failed." All the gods start speaking to him, pointing out his failure. Finally, it is Isis’ turn to insult Set. She accuses him of taking water "in his own hand" (an explanatory gloss equates water with Osiris). Set is called "camel, pig, hippopotamus," and "the Failed One." Set speaks for the first time but avoids the accusations, instead lamenting his failed attempt to have anal sex with Nephthys, likely due to his drunken state. He recalls grabbing Nephthys' tail and trying to copulate with her ("Voice of Set: [The] female donkey was taken when I was seizing her tail. I was given deceit… Nephthys was taken when I was on her anus… although she belongs to me as a wife").

Nephthys was also sometimes regarded as Horus' wife, as seen in the magical stela of Nesamun ("All fertile lands, all deserts, all mountains, and all waters and what is in them are united under the feet of Horus, son of Osiris, with whom Isis was pregnant and with whom Nephthys is married. May they dispel your feverish heat, may they remove your inner restlessness."). Papyrus Ramesseum IV even speaks of an unnamed daughter of Horus and Nephthys ("Hemen slept with his mother Isis after he had impregnated his aunt Nephthys with a daughter").

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Isis and Nephthys

Joint Tomb of Twosret and Setnakhte (KV14), Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

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Isis and Nephthys stand by, while Anubis carries out the process of mummification