Nut
Nut

Pantheon: Egyptian
Titles: Life-Giver, Mother of the Gods
Alternate Names/Spellings: Naut, Nuit
Gender: Female

Nut is the Goddess of Night, Reincarnation, the Sky, and Weather. Her sacred animals include Boars, Cows, Eagles, Peacocks, and Sows, and her sacred stones are lapis lazuli and turquoise. Her sacred plant is the sycamore. Nut is the sister/wife of Geb and the daughter of Shu and Tefnut. She is also sometimes known as a wife of Ra.

In art Nut appears as a blue woman stretching across the sky with stars all over her body, or as a woman carrying a water jar on her head. She may have a crown with horns and the solar disc, and may have a papyrus scepter and an ankh in her hands.

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