Anti (mythology)

Nemti is an occupied since the Old Kingdom Egyptian god, called " The Border ". In the Old Kingdom Nemti functioned among others as a local god of hat - nesu, capital of the 18th Upper Egyptian Falkengaues. From the Middle Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom Nemti also appeared as a manifestation of Neb - Adfet ( Lord of the twelfth oberg Egyptian Mountain Viper nome ) before starting the 21st dynasty this function Horus and Sobek later took over.

In Greco -Roman times the Feast of finding of the lower leg was on 27 Choiak (November 23, Greg. Augustus ) celebrated by Osiris. On that day, Osiris created the deity in the form of a Nemti Made of silver, which is attached to the head of an ox. In this era Nemti was nicknamed "The Great Horus".

In addition Nemti was called in the Greco -Roman period as a manifestation of Harsiese as a deity of the tenth nome of Upper Egypt; supplement as Nemti itself for the first time as a deity of the twelfth Upper Egyptian nome Mountain Viper ( Adfet - district).