neper had a female version of himself, called nepit. nepit was the goddess of grain. neper's mother, renenutet, was a goddess of nourishment, and harvesting, who also represented grains. neper was also seen as a form of osiris, the god of death and the underworld. people saw him as a form of osiris because he appeared and disappeared at the times of annual harvest, just like osiris came back from the dead. he, along with osiris, was often thought of the god that was "living after he had died".