# Neith · the weaver-warrior · the ancient creator

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦Neith:NTR:d31302⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *Athena* · Roman: *Minerva* — Plato's Timaeus: the goddess of Sais ‘in Greek is Athena,’ and Sais & Athens were sisters

**who —** Neith, one of the oldest goddesses — warrior, weaver, and creator, the great mother of Sais who is older than the gods she made.
**what —** War (the bow and crossed arrows), weaving (she wove the world on her loom), and primeval creation; a goddess so ancient she predates the Ennead.
**where —** Sais, in the Delta; the loom and the battlefield.
**why —** Because Egypt's wisest, most martial goddess matched the Greeks' own — Plato's priests of Sais told Solon she WAS Athena.
**how —** By her bow and arrows, her loom, and her word as a first creator who arbitrates even among the gods.

**the seal —** I am older than the gods and I wove the world on my loom — armed and wise, the mother that Athens calls Athena.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · NTR · The Egyptian Pantheon · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0