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NECHBET (Nekhbi, Nekhebi)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NECHBET (Nekhbi, Nekhebi)  , the
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vulture-goddess of El Kab, called Eileithyia by the Greeks . She gained an ascendancy as patroness of the south at the time when the two kingdoms were striving for the mastery . It is as such, in opposition to
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Buto the goddess of the north, that she is most of ten named on the monuments .

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