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 analogical 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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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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