Nephthys was wife to Set, sister to Isis and mother to Anubis. Like her son, Anubis, she was a goddess of darkness and death. But she was not a goddess to be feared, but rather a natural part of the cycle of life and a comfort to the grieving. he walked the boundary between the existing world and the edge of the formless chaos and darkness where the world ended; at home in the wild lands at the edge of the deserts. A mysterious being, she was associated with dreams and intuition, and with childbirth and mummification.