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Nut

deity sky Egyptian single tradition · 28

Nut is a sky goddess and sister and wife of Geb.

↻ synthesized from 28 sources

When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 2020
Historical notes
Images of goddesses connected with cattle appear in Predynastic Egypt.

Relationships

allied with
Bes, Geb, Shu, Heh gods, Thoth
enemy of
Ra
co occurs with
Nubit, Ipet-Nut, Horus the Elder, Andjety, Iah, Atum, Apophis, Juno, Khonshu, Shai, Apis, Min, Four sons of Horus, star deities, decans deities, Naunet, Shepsy, Nehmetawy, Unut, Nehbet-anet, Ay, Horus the Younger, Sopdet, Ra-Atum, Haroeris, Nehebkau, Ptah, Amaunet, Hauhet, Nu, Nun, Rekhyt, Pat, Anat, Maga, Nephthys, Imentet, Renenutet, Wadjet, Mut, Nekhbet, Neith, Amunet, Satis, Anput, Hesat, Serket, Anuket, Wosret, Ma'at, Ki, Atea, Vatea, Dyaúṣ-pitṛ, Pṛthvī-mātṛ, Gæa, Neneh, Djet, Harsomtus, Ra-Horakhty, Hadit, RA-HOOR-KHUIT, Heru-ra-ha, Horus of Behdet, Re-Harakhty, Hoor-paar-kraat, Behdety, Ala, Amadioha, Anyanwu, Ash, Bat, Mehet-Weret, Astarte, Asherah, Hera, Inanna, Amun, Kuk, Kauket, Anubis, Hathor, Bastet, Menhit, Pakhet, Sekhmet, Heqet, Wākea, Uranus, Anu, Horus
parent of
Arueris, Nephthys, Isis, Set, Seth, Osiris, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef, Hapy, Imsety
serves
Shu, Heh
manifests as
cow
consort of
Geb
syncretized with
Nuit
child of
Tefnut, Shu

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Mentioned by

and 10 more

Sources

wikipedia (28)
  1. List of nature deities
  2. Bes
  3. Hathor
  4. Ra
  5. Khonsu
  6. Osiris
  7. Thoth
  8. Queen of Heaven (antiquity)
  9. Isis
  10. Nehmetawy
  11. Nut (goddess)
  12. Sopdet
  13. Tefnut
  14. Osiris myth
  15. Geb
  16. Heh (god)
  17. Rekhyt
  18. Sebeg
  19. Set (deity)
  20. Shu (god)
  21. Rangi and Papa
  22. Four sons of Horus
  23. Book of the Heavenly Cow
  24. Dendera Temple complex
  25. Temple of Hathor at Dendera
  26. Heru-ra-ha
  27. Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu
  28. 360-day calendar

Source passages

“Nut, sky goddess and sister and wife of Geb”

#7694 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Bes appears in the video game Realm of the Mad God (2011) as a boss of an Egyptian themed dungeon known as the "Tomb of the Ancients", alongside Nut and Geb.”

#11609 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Like Nut, Hathor was said to give birth to the sun god each dawn.”

#14352 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“As Atum or Atum-Ra, he was reckoned the first being and the originator of the Ennead ("The Nine"), consisting of Shu and Tefnut, Geb and Nut, Osiris, Set, Isis and Nephthys.”

#17142 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“According to Ptolemaic Egyptian legends, Thebes was the first city in Egypt, founded by Osiris and named after his mother, the sky goddess Nut.”

#19339 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5