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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 See also:vulture-goddess of El Kab, called Eileithyia by the Greeks. She gained an ascendancy as patroness of the See also:south at the See also:time when the two kingdoms were striving for the mastery. It is as such, in opposition to See also:Buto the goddess of the See also:north, that she is most of ten named on the monuments.

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