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The original meaning of the word NETER is unknown, but in the Dynastic Period it probably meant "high, exalted, sublime, divine, godlike," etc.

The following are some of the principal gods and goddesses, and the visitor will find an unrivalled series of figures of most of them in bronze, wood, stone, etc., exhibited in Wall-cases 119-132 in the Third Egyptian Room. Full descriptions will be found in the Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms, pp. 116–168:—

ÁSÁR, Osiris,, the man-god who rose from the dead, was deified, and became the king of the Other World and judge of the Dead.

AST, Isis, the sister-wife of Osiris.

SET, the principle of Evil, and opponent of Osiris.

NEBT-HET, Nephthys,°}, the wife of Set.

ANPU, Anubis, the Dog-god, or Jackal-god, son of Set.

AP-UAT, the Wolf-god, a friend and companion

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of Osiris.

HERU, Horus,, existed in several forms, eg., Horus the Elder (Arouëris), Horus the Blind, Horus the Child (Harpokrates), Horus, son of Osiris, Horus, son of Isis, etc.

NU

୪୪୪

god of the primeval watery mass out of which the world was made.

HAPIX, the Nile-god.

KHEPERA, the creator of the universe

whose dwelling was Nu.

TEHUTI, Thoth,, who created the world and all things in it by a word.

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NET, Neith,, the self-created goddess of Saïs, who

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existed in four forms.

BAST, the great goddess of Bubastis.

MENU, or AMSU, god of virility and generation.

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MUT, the female counterpart of Âmen-Rā.

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I-EM-HETEP (Imouthis), a deified phy

sician of Memphis.

SEKER

god of the dead of Memphis.

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were numerous, eg., Sekhet, Pekhth, Tefnut, etc.

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