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Defining NETER

-GODDESS AS PREEMINENT DIVINITY-

DEFINING NETER | Goddess NEITH As The Original NETER

As of date June 9, 2024, the PTs (to be henceforth called "The Writing On The Wall") are the oldest known corpus of religious formulae in existence.  Because of this fact, I am of the confident opinion that Egypt can be considered the birthplace of formalized religion.  If religion can be regarded a consequence of seeking answers to the most profound questions ever contemplated --- “Where do we come from; what’s our purpose, how do we fulfill it; and what happens after we die?” --- then the logical point from which to proceed would be that amazing creature called Woman, and a time in ancient past that preceded our knowledge and understanding of the procreative process.  Without an instinctual ability to make the connection between coitus and biological reproduction, all primitive people could say about the phenomenon was that human life emerged from the body of females.  They  were the creators.  And if this act was reserved for the ultimate source of power, this made them Goddesses! 

 

It can be proven that the oldest temples in Egypt were consecrated to Goddesses.  Therefore, it should be possible, through analygical reasoning, to demonstrate an equation between the Goddess and the term Neter.  I begin by making a comparison with the word Erpat .  The er¹  is here used to signify "(the) 'chief'  or 'great'²  (hereditary ancestor of the pat).    As for Net, or more correctly in this instance, Ne-t,  we have the feminine aspect of Being, as a manifestation of the divine, variously rendered as N, En, Ne, On, and No.  We finally arrive at an etymology of:  " 'chief' or 'great' (divine) female being,"  i.e., a Goddess! 

 

In Plato’s description of On, as that “... which is and never knew beginning,” we can see an obvious semantic derivative of "All that was, is, and shall ever be." --- The divine attributes attached to the Goddess Neith, variously spelt Net³, Nut, and Niwt. 

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Defining NETER  |  GODDESS As Preeminent Divinity

If you were to establish a fundamental theorem of Goddess As Preeminent Divinity, you could deductively trace the evolution of primitive, Egyptian religion.  It would present itself initially as a belief system based upon their ignorance of the procreative process.  Not only would this lack of knowledge prompt them to regard woman as goddess, but it would simultaneously give birth to the idea of the resurrection of the dead.  Imagine this: A woman has copulated with a man.  A few days later the man is eaten alive by a roaming predator.  The people from his village have witnessed the gruesome scene in horror.  Nine months later, the woman gives birth to the son of the deceased father.  As time goes by, the villagers begin to notice that the more that the child grows the more it begins to look exactly like its deceased father.  Somehow, through this women, a dead man has returned to life.  All the more reasons to worship and protect her by all means possible!  Mind you, the mother of this miracle child is just as mystified as everyone else.  

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At some point in time, however, someone came to the realization that it takes 2 to tango.  Let's suppose woman was the first of the two sexes to connect the dots.  Let's reason that the high probability of it resides in the fact that it's she  who's represented by the instruments of both war and the hunt.   She is literally the matriarch of the hunting culture.  Then, further in time, man was taught the secret, or he solved the mystery on his own.  In any event, he's become wise to his role in the creative process.  Yet way before he styled himself Self-Begotten,  he was perfectly aware that he was formed in the belly of a woman, as if in a shelter of protection, before coming forth into the external world.  This understanding of their mutual dependency is reflected in the predynastic relationship between Neith and Min.

The modern Nehesi owes a debt of gratitude to the Greeks for preserving the ancient language of Egypt as correctly as possible in their translations of it.  I've already mentioned how vowel placement was arbitrary in a consonantal alphabet system.  The Greeks have not only demonstrated this, but have also confirmed for us the original Egyptian root of the word "Being" in their term "on-T-ology". 

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​¹ From this demonstration we also provide a solution for the meaning of El.

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 ²  Observe the different spellings for "great" : er and aa  (cf. Pharaoh). Assume that different areas of Egypt had their own distinct semantics before and after the unification of the land.

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³  A variant of Neith; was not only the first recorded theophoric of a goddess, but also the name of the royal wife of  Mene(/Narmer?), the first king to unite Egypt.  See  The Meaning Of Kemet  for further insight.  And do note the similarity of the crowns of Neith, Min, Menes (Narmer?), Mentuhotep 2, and Amen!  They detail a progression of theologies as they make their transition from a female-orientated to male-dominant religion.  Yet this crown, from the very beginning, appears to have been the official headgear of Lower Egypt, and a Goddess  wore it first!  For though it is called the Deshret crown, that only signifies its color (red); whereas its more sacred name was the Niwt, a homonym which not only denoted the goddess herself, but also the word for the town/city constructed around her throne! 

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