This is the third of the Darkwave Soulfriends series, featuring myself and Shmeekaboo

Spirit Reflection
Connate
-Nekhebet & Uadjet-
The Nebti

model and photo editor: Belenen
model: Shmeekaboo
photographer: Bob Storey

Nekhebet and Uadjet are sister goddesses of Egypt, together known as the Nebti. As a pair, they represented cycles of birth and death, beginning and ending. Nekhebet represented Upper Egypt, and Uadjet represented Lower Egypt: they were two halves of a whole.

Nekhebet was often represented as a vulture*, and Uadjet as a cobra; Nekhebet was the nurturing, comforting side of the mother goddess, and Uadjet was the fierce, protective side. They were so closely connected that many of the myths have them entertwined, sometimes represented as a cobra with wings.

*In Southern Africa, the name for an Egyptian vulture is synonymous with the term applied to lovers, for vultures like pigeons are always seen in pairs. ... Pairing, bonding, protecting, loving are essential attributes associated with a vulture. Because of its immense size and power and its ability to soar high up in the sky, the vulture is considered to be nearer to God who is believed to reside above the sky. Thus the qualities of a vulture are associated with Godliness. On the other hand the wide wingspan of a vulture may be seen as all encompassing and providing a protective cover to its infants. The vulture when carrying out its role as a mother and giving protection to its infants may exhibit a forceful nature whilst defending her young. All these qualities inspired the imagination of the Ancient Egyptians. They adopted what seemed to them at the time to be motherly qualities, the qualities of protecting and nurturing their young.
-- Ma-Wetu, The Kiswahili-Bantu Research Unit for the Advancement of the Ancient Egyptian Language