There is Anubis standing beside the bier; there are Isis and Nephthys, and there below, Horus and Tahuti.

The Sektet boat draweth on and cometh into port; the South and the North, the West and the East, turn, to praise thee, O thou primeval substance of the earth who didst come into being of thine own accord, Isis and Nephthys salute thee, they sing unto thee songs of joy at thy rising in the boat, they protect thee with their hands.

This chapter may be fittingly ended by a few extracts from, the Songs of Isis and Nephthys, which were sung in the Temple of Amen-R[=a] at Thebes by two priestesses who personified the two goddesses.

Anubis cometh to thee, and the two sisters (i.e., Isis and Nephthys) come to thee.

O R[=a] (i.e., Osiris), thou art beloved of Isis and Nephthys; rest thou in thy habitation forever." CHAPTER III.

He is called the "Erp[=a]," i.e., the "hereditary chief" of the gods, and the "father of the gods," these being, of course, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.

5. NUT was the wife of Seb and the mother of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.

Set was the son of Seb and Nut, and the husband of Nephthys.

NEPHTHYS was the sister of Isis and her companion in all her wanderings and troubles; like her she had a place in the boat of the Sun at creation, when she probably typified the twilight or very early night.

"Praise be unto thee, O R[=a], thou exalted Power, whose head giveth light to that which is in front of thee, behold [thy] body is Nephthys. 19.

The divine Merti [Footnote: Literally, the Two Eyes, i.e., Isis and Nephthys.] goddesses who minister unto thee cherish thee as King of the North and South, thou beautiful and beloved Man-child.

From the earliest times the Ma[=a]ti were the two goddesses Isis and Nephthys, and they were so called because they represented the ideas of straightness, integrity, righteousness, what is right, the truth, and such like; the word Ma[=a]t originally meant a measuring reed or stick.

At the end of the Hall are seated the goddesses of Ma[=a]t, i.e., Isis and Nephthys, the deceased adoring Osiris who is seated on a throne, a balance with the heart of the deceased in one scale, and the feather, symbolic of Ma[=a]t, in the other, and Thoth painting a large feather.

NEPHTHYS, woman-headed, the sister-wife of Osiris, and mother of Anubis. 9.

It will be remembered that Meskhenet accompanied Isis, Nephthys, Heqet, and Khnemu to the house of the lady Rut-Tettet, who was about to bring forth three children.

Isis took her place before her, and Nephthys behind her, whilst Heqet hastened the birth of the children; as each child was born Meskhenet stepped up to him and said, "A king who shall have dominion over the whole land," and the god Khnemu bestowed health upon his limbs.

Of these five gods, Isis, Nephthys, Meskhenet, Heqet, and Khnemu, the first three are present at the judgment of Ani; Khnemu is mentioned in Ani's address to his heart (see below), and only Heqet is unrepresented.

The friends of the deceased performed for him all the ceremonies and rites which were performed for Osiris by Isis and Nephthys, and it was assumed that, as a result, the same things which took place in favour of Osiris would also happen on behalf of the deceased, and that in fact, the deceased would become the counterpart of Osiris.

At the back of his neck hangs the menat or symbol of joy and happiness; on his right hand stands Nephthys, and on his left stands Isis.

In several papyri the god is seen standing up in the shrine, sometimes with and sometimes without the goddesses Isis and Nephthys.

His watery parentage, and the storm-god's relationship with a swan-maiden of the Apsarasas (typifying the mists and clouds), and with Freydis the fire queen, are equally obvious: whereas Niafer is plainly a variant of Nephthys, Lady of the House, whose personality Dr. Budge sums up as 'the goddess of the death which is not eternal,' or Nerthus, the Subterranean Earth, which the warm rainstorm quickens to life and fertility.

was briefly thus: Keb, the earth-god, and Nut, the goddess of the sky, had four children,Osiris and Isis, Seth and Nephthys, who were thus paired in marriage.

Isis sought for the body of her husband until she found it, and Isis and Nephthys, her sister, sat at his head and feet and bewailed him.