
Queen of the Night, Mother of Anubis, the Foundational Pillar, Mysterious Goddess of Magick, Guide Through the Duat
Learn more…After you are done with this, you can meditate on Nephthys's Sigil in the Temple of Zeus, or the one below. Let yourself be immersed and receive energy from Nephthys.
It's important to meditate on yourself after the Ritual calmly for a few minutes.
सत्: SAT, real, true, truthful in Sanskrit.
The Symbol that Encapsulates the Sigil: The Shen Ring, Egyptian Hieroglyphic language. The Shen also survived in Chinese tradition as a glyph for Spiritual Force, Divine Force, and God.
The Ancient Greek letters for Nephthys's Name in arrangement.
Nephthys (Egyptian: Nb.t-Hwt, "Lady of the House/Enclosure") is the Goddess of the night, death, mourning, funerary rites, and the unseen world. Daughter of Geb and Nut, sister of Isis, Osiris, and Set, mother of Anubis. In the Osirian cycle she stands alongside Isis as one of the two kites (divine mourners) who lament Osiris and assist in his resurrection. The Pyramid Texts (Utterance 485) identify her as a protective force: "Nephthys has collected all your members for you in her name of Seshat, Lady of Builders." Her identification with Hestia in the ritual reflects the Greek interpretatio of Nephthys as the Goddess of the sacred household and the foundational enclosure. The Duat (Egyptian underworld) through which she guides the dead is not a place of punishment but of transformation: the deceased must navigate its waters and pass through its gates to achieve the state of akh (transfigured spirit).
(Sources: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 485, 364; Coffin Texts, Spell 148; Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 12, 38; Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003)
The Goetia lists Bathin (also Bathym, Marthim) as the eighteenth spirit: a Duke commanding 30 legions, appearing as a strong man with a serpent tail, riding a pale horse. His attributed powers (knowledge of herbs and stones, instantaneous transportation between countries) correspond to Nephthys's role as the Goddess who knows the spells of embalming (herbs and minerals used in mummification) and who transports the dead across the boundary between worlds. The serpent tail reflects the uraeus serpent associated with protective Egyptian Goddesses, and the pale horse is the steed of the psychopomp who carries souls between realms.
(Sources: Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, 1577; Ars Goetia, 17th c.)