Nemty

**Nemty**


 * Other Names:**

Anty, Anti, Nemti


 * Meaning of Name:**

“Wanderer”

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 * Titles:**

//Dunawy// (“He Who Stretches Out His Wings”)

//Dunanwy// (“He Who Extends His Claws”)

"Lord of the East"

The ferryman of the gods, Nemty was a guardian deity of Upper Egypt, and was possibly an old patron there since long before written records. Nemty was thought to protect the region where the sun-god rose, and soar with him at dawn into the heavens. He also was responsible for protecting the barques that the gods sailed in. Nemty was pictured as a falcon sitting on a crescent moon with his wings outstretched, or as a linen-wrapped falcon-headed man in a barque. In rare instances he was depicted as a falcon with a double set of wings, perched on a pole.

For his terrible crime of beheading the cow-goddess Hesat (sometimes Hathor) in a fit of anger, Nemty's skin was flayed from his bones. Consequently, Nemty was shown wrapped in linen bandages, and his statues were always made of silver rather than gold (the gods were thought to have skin made of gold and bones of silver.) Later Thoth restored the goddess' head, and Hesat healed Nemty with her cow's milk. Unluckily, in another myth Nemty also had his fingers and toes (or talons) chopped off as punishment for bribery. Nemty is associated with the flayed-skin motif, the Imiut.

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