NUT

NUT

Goddesses Series

Mythology:

According to ancient Egyptian mythology, Nut (pronounced “newt”) is the goddess of the sky and heavens. She was the daughter of Shu, god of vital breath, and his wife Tefnut, goddess of heat. She was usually depicted as a woman bent over Earth with her head in the West and feet in the East. She was sometimes depicted as a celestial cow. She was part of the cosmogony (a theory of the origin of the universe) of Heliopolis. The ancient Egyptians believed that she protected the Earth deity Geb, her husband, from the night sky. Myths also state that the sun deity Ra traveled through her - she swallowed him at night and then gave birth to him every morning. Ra was then replaced by Thoth at night. She was often associated with coffins and sarcophagi because she protected the dead until they were reborn in the Afterlife.

-Text by The Rosicrucians Egyptian Museum

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Signs : Sky, stars, milky way.

Symbol: A woman bending over the land as milky way.

Animal: Cow

Plant: Musk 

Gemstone: Turquoise, sapphire, tourmaline, blue topaz, and opal

Colors: Blue and black; the  colors of the sky

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