Mut

Also known as Maut, Mout

thumb|Mut nursing the pharaoh, Seti I, in relief from the second hypostyle hall of Seti's mortuary temple in Abydos.

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Mut was an ancient Egyptian goddess often depicted nursing pharaohs, as seen in temple reliefs like those at the mortuary temple of Seti I in Abydos. She appears to have held significance in Egyptian religious beliefs as a maternal or nurturing deity connected to the pharaohs' divine legitimacy.

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Key facts

Deity.type: Egyptian
Deity.name: Mut
Deity.image: Mut.svg
Deity.caption: A contemporary image of goddess Mut, depicted as a woman wearing the double crown plus a royal vulture headdress, associating her with Nekhbet.
Deity.hiero: G14-t:H8-B1 or mt:t-B1
Deity.cult_center: Thebes
Deity.symbol: the Vulture
Deity.parents: Ra
Deity.siblings: Sekhmet, Hathor, Ma'at and Bastet
Deity.consort: Amun
Deity.offspring: Khonsu

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Commons category: Mut
name in hiero markup: t-G15

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13 sections

Contents

Mythology
Theban cosmogony
Role in the Theban triad
Eye of Ra
Isheru
Motherhood
Patron of women
Depictions
In Karnak
Personal piety
References
Further reading
External links

thumb|Mut nursing the pharaoh, Seti I, in relief from the second hypostyle hall of Seti's mortuary temple in Abydos.

Mut (; also transliterated as Maut and Mout) was a mother goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt. Her name means mother in the ancient Egyptian language. Mut had many different aspects and attributes that changed and evolved greatly over the thousands of years of ancient Egyptian culture.