Nut, `Night-Sky'.
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[to Whom the third day of March, day 062, is dedicated]

Geography/Culture: Egyptian.

Description: Star-spangled Goddess of sky; Mother of the sun, who is reborn from Her womb everyday; Friend and Protectress of the dead; Provider of meat and drink to the deceased. And see also Goddess Anthology - Nut.

To Whom are sacred: sycamore, leaves and fruit; cow (a form She sometimes takes); turquoise colour; rounded-vase (perhaps containing water - ideogram of Her name); stars; disk and horns; ankh (symbol of life).

Male associates: sons, Horus, Osiris and Set by consort/brother: Geb, earth-god. In one myth, Her consort is: Ra (though She is also called his Daughter) and Geb, Her lover.

Titles, Variants, etc.

• Hat-Hor also bears Horus the sun each day.
• Mother of, also called Sister of Isis, qv.
• Aspect of Herself: Naut, below.
• Mother/Sister of, Nebthet, qv.
• Neith, is sometimes called Mother of Isis, Osiris and Horus.
• Rhea, Earth, (qv Pandora), as Goddess of the sky, is identified with Nut by the Greeks.
• Daughter of Tefnut, qv.

Source: Monaghan BGH 225; Mercacante WWEM 110.

Naut, `The-Night-Sky'.
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Geography/Culture: Egyptian.

Linguistic note: is it possible the English word night is cognate?

Description: She Who refreshes the Divinities beneath Her shadow.

Titles, Variants, etc.

• Aspect of Nut.