Cult of Gods

Nephthys

Egyptian tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
mourning, protection of the dead
Symbols and attributes
Basket and house hieroglyph
Parents (per the sources used)
Geb and Nut
Partner
Seth
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.

Key myth

Sister of Isis and wife of Seth. She grieves with Isis at Osiris's body and protects the dead.

Primary sources

  • Pyramid Texts
  • Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys

All sources for the Egyptian pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Geb, Shu, Atum, Nun, Tefnut, Nut.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

NunAtumRaAmunShuTefnutMaatHathorSekhmetPtahGebNutAnubisThothSobekOsirisIsisSethNephthysHorus

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorseA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Nephthys: death and the underworld. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Odin

wisdom, poetry, war

Norse

Baldr

light, beauty, mercy

Norse

Hel

the dead who die of sickness or age

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Norse

Rán

drowning, the sea's net

Mesopotamian

Nergal

plague, war, the underworld

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