Nephthys

“I am the question that cannot be answered.

I am the lover that cannot be lost.

Still small are the gifts of my servant the soldier.

Time is my offspring.

Pray what is my name?

My name it is death

Cannot you see?

All life must end in me.”     Extracted from The Incredible String Band’s song.

Song, invoking the Kite Goddess    by Nick Owen

Hark, hark, I hear you calling me.

Come, Come, come to me.

Hark, Hark, I hear you calling me.

Come, come, come.

Together we’ll fly on the mountains above

Come, come, come to me

And together we’ll guard all the valleys below.

Won’t you come,

Come to me.

Nephthys

Dig down to the depths where death dwells

Dig for deeper dreams

Where my dead darling dances

As she never danced before

Glide

Silently stalking the banks of silver streams

Selecting

Swooping

Shredding

Returning earthly things

To heaven

I seek your eye of Horus

I seek protective wings

Wrap me into darkness

Take me down to dreams

Thirty years and more

Half a lifetime

I have sought you out

Since first I began to identify the dead.

Here you are again

You swoop

Hover

Twist

And swoop again

Talons stretch forward

Bringing golden grief

Tail spread

Forked this way, that

Wings spread wider than wide

Feathers red and white and black

Dark tips twitching in the breeze

A twist

A shimmy

A landing on the prey

Death comes

Life goes away

Sixty years and more since

I was torn

From your house of life

And death

You

Pulling me through

Oh, Guardian of the dead

Protector of the grieving ones

Who live

A merely mortal life

Still

Or wriggling

Take me to eternity

Make me one with Osiris

Beyond this world of strife

In everlasting life

© Nick Owen

A tad about the Goddess
Nephthys was known as the goddess of mourning. She was also one of the nine gods. She was the goddess of night, rivers, sleep, nature and mourning. When Nephthys became the goddess of mourning she also became a friend and protecter of the dead. Nephthys was important in Ancient Egyptian culture because Egyptians considered the afterlife to be very important. She always stood at the head of the coffin that would take the dead to the underworld with outspread wings. Nephthys explained the nether world for the Ancient Egyptians by protecting and caring for the dead. When people died their ''Ba'' would be tested by 40 gods. Many of the gods met up with Nephthys. This is a small list of gods and goddesses.

She manifests as a kite!

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