Nut

Sky goddess arched over earth, mother of sun and stars.

Parentage

• parent: Shu
• parent: Tefnut

Children

• Nephthys
• Set

Domains

• sky
• stars

Powers

• Swallowing the sun at dusk and birthing it at dawn
• Enfolding and protecting the dead within her body

Epithets

• mwt nṯrw egyptian · mut netjeru · cultMother of the gods; the sky who bears the sun and starsPyramid Texts; the sarcophagus sky-goddess texts (primary)
• wrt-ḥkꜣw egyptian · Weret-hekau · cultGreat of magic; the protecting sky-mother stretched over the deadcoffin-lid sky-goddess vignettes; cf. Pyramid Texts utterance 588 (secondary)
• nbt pt Egyptian · nebet-pet · cultMistress of HeavenLeitz, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, s.v. Nut (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: GebFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Shu & Tefnut) per the figures' cited genealogy.

Sources

• existence: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 427 (primary)