Nut (goddess)

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Nuit is also a goddess in the cosmology of Thelema

In the Ennead mythology, Nut (alternatively spelled Nuit) was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythologies, which usually have a sky father. Nut is a daughter of Shu, god of the air, and Tefnut, goddess of moistness. Her husband was Geb, the earth, with whom she had 4 children: Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nepthys. In myth, she originally lay eternally having sex with Geb, but Shu (the air) later separated them, and it was said that if she ever returned to that position, chaos would reign (because the world was the bit that existed between the two). Nut was said to be covered in stars touching the cardinal points of her body.

Originally she was the goddess of the daytime sky, but in later time she was known simply as the sky goddess.

The sky goddess Nut depicted as a cow

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References

• Collier, Mark and Manley, Bill. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Revised Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.