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Neti  (Nedu)

Neti, the gatekeeper of the underworld, is featured mainly in the Descent of Inanna.  If you just read the written sources, you might think Neti is just some kind of Sumerian version of a proper English butler.  However, once you see what it means to be the gatekeeper of a realm bound about by such a strong magic that all the Gods must obey it, you can get a glimpse of what kind of Titan Neti actually is.

In the psychological analogue to the myth, Neti becomes the mediator between the Ego and the Shadow.  The importance of this to practitioners of the Dark Way cannot be overstated; so we give Neti his due as well as we know how.

References:
"Neti."  Encyclopedia Mythica.
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/n/neti.html
[Accessed January 11, 2003.]

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