See also: Neith (homonymy)

Neith (or Neit ) is, in the Egyptian Mythologie, a very former goddess of the town of Know in the delta (Low-Egypt). Marry Khnoum or, in the Fayoum, of Sobek.

One of its loads is to protect the internal organs from the king in company of Isis, Serket and Nephthys. It is in load of the Vase canope containing the stomach of the late one. Placed at the east, it was closed by a stopper representing the genius Douamoutef with head of jackal.

On the walls of the temples and tombs, it is represented under the features of a woman carrying the red crown (symbol of the High-Egypt). It had as an emblem two arrows intersected on a shield. One thus associates it with the military victories Pharaon. It is under this aspect that the Greeks compared it to the goddess Athéna.

In very an other register, it is also a paramount and creative goddess asexual. In this role, it is fertilized by the Verb and generates the Sun. She weaves the world and into fixed the limits with seven fabrics, then she creates the seven right words which do it main universe. She is mother of Sobek which generates Re in the morning and devours it at the evening.

She forms also part of the myth osirien as the “Large one of wisdom” which judged the combat between Seth and Horus and proposed with the divine court that Horus becomes king of the vegetable world and Seth of the desert one, but not to support Horus she offers to Seth the foreign goddesses.

Its worship culminated in the neighborhoods of (seventh century BC).

She is sometimes comparable with the goddess Nout, the vault of heaven.