Tefnut
Egyptian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Goddess of moisture; with Shu the first elemental pair.
Parentage
- parent: Atum
Children
Domains
- moisture
- rain dew
Powers
- Generating the world's moisture and corrosive damp
- Generating moisture, dew and rain
- The Distant Goddess / raging lioness Eye of Ra
Epithets
- 𓏏𓆑𓈖𓏏𓆗 goddess of moisture, with Shu the first elemental pair created by AtumPyramid Texts, Utterance 600 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: ShuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Atum) per the figures' cited genealogy.
Sources
- existence: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 527 (primary)