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“Pick and prod until the bone
Muscle, sinew, all is shown
Throw the king off of his throne
Carve his soul into Earth’s stone”
-Vultures’ Chant (Personal Poem)

Appearing in many mythologies around the world, the Egyptian Vulture holds an especially important place in the predynastic vulture of Ancient Egypt. At first a patron of the city of Nekheb, Nekhbet would become one of the two patron deities of the whole of Ancient Egypt under unification.

A shen ring, a symbol of eternal protection, which was often found protecting pharaonic names, was always held by the goddess Nekhbet. She is referred to by the Book of the Dead as ‘Father of Fathers, Mother of Mothers, who hath existed from the Beginning, and is Creator of this World’. Shown protecting the pharaoh as a wet-nurse and divine mother, her image also sometimes accompanied a pharaoh into death upon headdresses worn for entombment.

As such, Nekhbet could be said to be the antithesis of Ammit -a part lion, crocodile, and hippo demon - who would meet a soul in the afterlife to judge one’s heart for goodness