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Nut

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Also known as nuith

goddess of the sky in the Ennead of Egyptian mythology

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Nut was the goddess of the sky in ancient Egyptian mythology and was part of the Ennead, a group of nine major deities. She was an important figure in Egyptian religious beliefs about how the cosmos was organized and how the gods interacted with the natural world.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
sky deity
Gender
female
Spouse
Geb
Child
Horus
Father
Shu
Mother
Tefnut
Image
Nut.svg
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Nut (goddess)
worshipped by
Ennead
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SymbolSky, Stars, Cows Genealogy ParentsShu and Tefnut SiblingsGeb ConsortGeb OffspringOsiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys, Horus the Elder Equivalents GreekUranus

Nut /ˈnʊt/ (Ancient Egyptian: Nwt, Coptic: Ⲛⲉ), also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient Egyptian religion.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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