The goddess "Neith" is of Libyan origin. The Ancient Egyptians called her "The Libyan Goddess".She is the same Greek goddess "athena" according to some greek scholars like as: herodotus and plato.
It was probably the same carthagian goddess "tanit" (Ta-neith). the female forms in the berber language are made throug adding 't' in the beginning and the end. and it is believed that the egyptians and the greeks ignored the first 't', there is said.
neith was born in from the god "poseidon" and the lake tritionis [was in the modern tunisia]. the libyan god "poseidon" was the god of the sea, and he was blue-eyed. the legend said that athena/neith/tanit also had blue eyes like as her father. but some afrocentric scholars calim it was 'black', and the eurocentrist claim it was 'beatuful' [european, thus].
athena/neith is depicted with some berber/libyan characters (like as herodotus said). but i don't know if she had any libyan characters in the egyptian depicts.
http://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/case/about/gods.html
[This message has been edited by Mazigh (edited 10 September 2005).]