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NutMother of the GodsPantheon: Egyptian Element: Air Sphere of Influence: Resurrection Preferred colors: Midnight Blue Associated symbol: Round Vase Animals associated with: Cow , Sow |
Nut (Nuit/Nuet) (pronounced Noot) was an Egyptian Sky-Goddess, separated from her consort and brother (Geb) by Ra. She is usually shown as a woman with a long, star-spangled body touching the earth with her fingers and toes, her back making an arch in the sky. The Sun god would travel up her legs each day, across her back and is then swallowed in her mouth, to be reborn the next day. This led to her being associated with resurrection, and the world of the dead. She was believed to watch over the deceased, and her image has been found painted on the inside lid of Egyptian Sarcophagi. She is often referred to as 'The Sow who eats up her piglets', in that she subsumes all the heavenly bodies in her own being. When seen in human form, she is seen wearing a vase upon her head. | |
Additional Information on Nut from WikipediaInformation is unedited and uncheckedIn Egyptian mythology, Nuit was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythology|mythologies, where the Sky Father is nearly always male. Nuit is a daughter of Shu (Egyptian deity)|Shu and Tefnut. She was one of the Ennead. The sun god Re entered her mouth after the sun set in the evening and was reborn from her vulva the next morning. She also swallowed and rebirthed the stars. She was a goddess of death, and her image is on the inside of most sarcophagus|sarcophagi. The pharaoh entered her body after death and was later resurrected. In art, Nuit is depicted as a woman wearing no clothes, covered with stars and supported by Shu (Egyptian deity)|Shu; opposite her(the sky), is her husband, Seb(the Earth). With Seb, she was the mother of Osiris, Horus, Isis, Set (mythology)|Set, and Nephthys. Alternative: Nut ca: Nut da: Nut de: Nut (Mythologie) fr:Nout nl: Nut pl: Nut zh:努特 This text is made available under the GNU Free Documentation License Agreement. The full text of this article is available for download here. (Nut) | |