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Proclus (412–485 AD) wrote that the adyton of the temple of Neith in Sais (of which nothing now remains) carried the following inscription: I am the things that are, that will be, and that have been. No one has ever laid open the garment by which I am concealed. The fruit which I brought forth was the sun. [41]
Herodotus wrote that Sais is where the grave of Osiris was located and that the sufferings of the god were displayed as a mystery by night on an adjacent lake. [9] The city's patron goddess was Neith, whose cult is attested as early as the First Dynasty of Egypt (c. 3100 –3050 BC). [3]
The Platonic dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BC, recount (through the voice of Critias) how the Athenian statesman Solon (638–558 BC) traveled to Egypt and in the city of Sais encountered the priests of the goddess Neith.
The ancient cult of Neith (Ha-nit) (or Nit, or Tinnit) influenced the ancient Egyptians with their goddess Neith, and the Hellenes with their goddess Athena through the Berber cult of war, [11] and was an imported deity from Libya who was in wide worship in 600 BC [12] in Sais (Archaic name: Ha-Nit) by the Libyan population inhabiting Sais, a ...
Sais was the cult center of the goddess Neith, whom the Greeks compared to their goddess Athena. In Plutarch's time Isis was the preeminent goddess among ancient Egyptian deities , and was frequently syncretized with Neith, and he equates the two.
Neith – A creator and hunter goddess, tutelary deity of the city of Sais in Lower Egypt [45] Nekhbet – A vulture goddess, the tutelary deity of Upper Egypt [ 46 ] Nephthys – A member of the Ennead ; the consort of Set who mourned Osiris alongside Isis [ 47 ]
Acculturated by Udjahorresnet, the pharaoh paid homage to the goddess Neith at Sais, not before having driven out many Persian squatters who had settled within the temple; Udjahorresnet himself composed Cambyses' pharaonic titulary, calling him the Horus Smatawy (”He who unifies the Two Lands”) and the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Mesutire ...
Menkheperre Necho I (Egyptian: Nekau, [1] Greek: Νεχώς Α' or Νεχώ Α', Akkadian: Nikuu [6] or Nikû [7]) (? – 664 BCE near Memphis) was a ruler of the ancient Egyptian city of Sais. He was the first securely attested local Saite king of the 26th Dynasty of Egypt who reigned for 8 years (672–664 BCE ) according to Manetho 's ...