Neper
 The god Neper was a grain deity whose
agricultural origin was an early one and who may well have
predated that aspect of Osiris whom he resembled in
several ways. The Coffin Texts mention Neper as a god
'living after he has died' (CT II 95), and the god was
largely assimilated with Osiris as time progressed. The
hieroglyphic writing of Neper's name includes the symbol
for grain; and in a procession of deities carved in the
reign of the 5th-dynasty king Sahure the body of the godis
dotted to symbolize the grain which Neper represented.
Because the harvest was so dependent upon the yearly
flooding of the Nile, the inudation deity Hapy was said to
be 'lord of Neper', but the god was honored in his own
right as an important deity of the harvest and prosperity.
Neper was often associated with the cobra goddess
Renenutet who also was a patron of the harvest. A cult
center of the god is known to have been constructed in the
southern Fayum by Amenemhet III and
IV.
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