Nephthys
Family: Egyptian gods · Role: goddess · First appears: The History of Creation — A
In The History of Creation A, Seb and Nut brought forth Nephthys at one birth with Osiris, Heru-khent-an-maati, Set and Isis. In The History of Creation B, Shu and Tefnut brought forth Nephthys with Osiris, Heru-khenti-an-maa, Set and Isis.
Plutarch tells that Nephthys was born on the fifth superadded day and that Kronos was her father. He says Typhon married her; later, Nephthys deceived Osiris and bore his child, whom she exposed after birth, fearing Typhon’s anger. Isis learned of this and searched for the child.
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Life events
- Seb and Nut brought forth Osiris, Heru-khent-an-maati, Set, Isis, and Nephthys at one birth.(The History of Creation — A · 📍 this earth)
- Shu and Tefnut brought forth Osiris, Heru-khenti-an-maa, Set, Isis, and Nephthys.(The History of Creation — B)
- Nephthys was born on the fifth superadded day.(The History of Isis and Osiris, collected by Plutarch · Part 4)
- “Upon the fourth day Isis was born, in the marshes of Egypt, and upon the fifth day Nephthys, whom some call Teleute, or Aphrodite, or Nike, was born.”
- Typhon married Nephthys.(The History of Isis and Osiris, collected by Plutarch · Part 4)
- With: Typhon
- “They further add that Typhon married Nephthys, and that Isis and Osiris, having a mutual affection, enjoyed each other in their mother's womb before they were born,”
- Isis learned that Nephthys had deceived Osiris and borne his child, whom she exposed after birth.(The History of Isis and Osiris, collected by Plutarch · Part 5)
- With: Osiris Typhon
- “Isis meanwhile having been informed that Osiris, deceived by her sister Nephthys, who was in love with him, had unwittingly enjoyed her instead of herself, as she concluded from the melilot-garland which he had left with her, made it her business likewise to search out the child, the fruit of this unlawful commerce (for her sister, dreading the anger of her husband Typhon, had exposed it as soon as it was born).”