nephthys

IPA: nʌfθiz

Root Word: Nephthys

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Set and sister of Isis, Osiris, and Set, worshiped as a protective goddess and nurse of the pharaoh and associated with funerary rites and the transition from life to death.

Examples of "nephthys" in Sentences

Hapi is in turn protected by the goddess Nephthys.
Nephthys plays an important role in the Osirian myth cycle.
Hapi was assigned to a tutelary protective goddess Nephthys.
Nephthys says that not all the citizens are as bad as Dirge thinks.
Hapi in baboon form, protected the lungs and was protected by Nephthys.
Another temple of Nephthys seems to have existed in the town of Punodjem.
Nephthys is occasionally regarded as the mother of the funerary deity Anubis.
Nephthys became part of the Ennead pantheon, and thus considered a wife of Set.
Nephthys also serves as the nursemaid and watchful guardian of the infant Horus.