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She is one of three virgin goddesses; the other two were HESTIA and ARTEMIS.
She was the daughter of Zeus; no mother bore her. She sprang from Zeus’s head, full-grown and clothed in armor
originally posted by: Neith
If Beyonce is Athena
Then I'm Kali Yuga!
Snicker...
‘Two black doves flew away from Egyptian Thebes, and while one directed its flight to Libya, the other came to them. She alighted on an oak, and sitting there began to speak with a human voice, and told them that on that spot where she was, there should thenceforth be an oracle of Jove (Zeus). They understood the announcement to be from Heaven, so they set to work at once and erected a shrine. The dove that flew to Libya bade the Libyans to establish there the oracle of Ammon (Amon).’ (Herodotus II, 53-5).
In Egypt however, Herodotus was given a different version of the legend. The priests of Jupiter (Amon) at Thebes said:
‘Two of the sacred women were once carried off from Thebes by the Phoenicians. The story went that one of them was sold into Libya, and the other into Greece, and these women were the first founders of the oracles of the two countries’
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. Herodotus claims that the people of Sais were deeply devoted to Neith as the creator and preserver of all and identified her with the Greek goddess Athena. Plato also comments on the link between Neith and Athena in his dialogue of the Timaeus where he writes, "The citizens [of Sais] have a deity for their foundress; she is called in the Egyptian tongue Neith and is asserted by them to be the same whom the Hellenes call Athena" (21e). Her identification as the most powerful creative force in the universe is noted by Plutarch (c. 50 - 120 CE) who writes that the temple of Neith at Sais held this inscription: "I Am All That Has Been, That Is, and That Will Be. No Mortal Has Yet Been Able to Life the Veil that Covers Me". It is interesting to note that her name, among its many other connotations, links to the root word for "weave" which carries with it the meaning of "to make exist" or "create" or "to be".
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Herodotus takes great advantage of the opportunity to hammer down his belief that the Greeks adopted many features and figures of the Egyptian pantheon: The names of nearly all the gods came to Greece from Egypt. I know from the inquiries I have made that they came from abroad, and it seems most likely that it was from Egypt, for the names of all the gods have been known in Egypt from the beginning of time, with the exception (as I have already said) of Poseidon and the Dioscuri--and also of Hera, Hestia, Themis, the Graces, and the Nereids. I have the authority of the Egyptians themselves for this.14 That Herodotus asserts the probability that the "names of nearly all the gods came to Greece from Egypt" is not surprising, since Greek tradition held Egypt to be one of the worlds oldest civilizations and often ascribes to them the origin of many cultural and technological elements. They also told me that the Egyptians first brought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks took over from them, and were the first to assign altars and images and temples to the gods, and to carve figures in stone.15 Herodotus frequently mentions that the Greeks adopted the names of the gods from Egypt. Herodotus does not mean to suggest that the names of the gods of Greece are actually Egyptian in origin. Linforth argues that Herodotus, when stating this, "wishes to say that the Greeks derived their knowledge of a god from Egypt.
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The son of Belus, king of Egypt, and Anchirrhoe, and twin brother of Aegyptus. Aegyptus and his fifty sons drove Danaus and his fifty daughters from their home in the Egyptian Chemnis through Rhodes to Argos, the home of his ancestress Io (see Io). Here he took over the kingdom from Pelasgus or Gelanor, and after him the Achaeans of Argos bore the name of Danai.
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. Herodotus claims that the people of Sais were deeply devoted to Neith as the creator and preserver of all and identified her with the Greek goddess Athena. Plato also comments on the link between Neith and Athena in his dialogue of the Timaeus where he writes, "The citizens [of Sais] have a deity for their foundress; she is called in the Egyptian tongue Neith and is asserted by them to be the same whom the Hellenes call Athena" (21e).
Her identification as the most powerful creative force in the universe is noted by Plutarch (c. 50 - 120 CE) who writes that the temple of Neith at Sais held this inscription: "I Am All That Has Been, That Is, and That Will Be.
No Mortal Has Yet Been Able to Life the Veil that Covers Me". It is interesting to note that her name, among its many other connotations, links to the root word for "weave" which carries with it the meaning of "to make exist" or "create" or "to be". www.ancient.eu...
originally posted by: Neith
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
lol that's the first thing i thought when i saw this post hahahaha!
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
originally posted by: Neith
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
lol that's the first thing i thought when i saw this post hahahaha!
She's a huge phony! She might like to think she's some sort of goddess, but she isn't, lol!
originally posted by: Neith
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
originally posted by: Neith
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
lol that's the first thing i thought when i saw this post hahahaha!
She's a huge phony! She might like to think she's some sort of goddess, but she isn't, lol!
lol Yup! She's as phony as a 3 dollar bill!
originally posted by: Spider879
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
Majority of artist are phonies who think waaay too much of themselves, and it's our fault for fawning over them constantely.