One of the most common forms of Nut features her as an arch stretching over the earth. Egyptologists believe that the water pot represented a womb. The hieroglyph for her name is also a water pot. Some pictures depict her sitting with a water pot on her head.
Nut’s appearance varied in many ways throughout Egypt. In this form, she is the mother of all life and the one who receives all spirits. The Pyramid Texts of the pharaoh Pepi tell this story and reveals Nut as the “Great Goddess of the Sky”. She gives birth to Ra every morning to start the day anew. Ra uses her body as a pathway for the sun in the sky. The other myth refers to Nut as the mother of Ra. Her absence from the sky resulted in darkness. In the evening, Nut would come down to Earth to meet with Geb. In reference to Nut as a lover, Egyptians believed that Nut and Geb separated during the day. Two different Egyptian myths place Nut as having vital powers in the sequence of day and night. Her children, Osiris, Haroeris, Set, Isis and Nephthys, became five important gods in Egypt. She gave birth to five more children on the epagomenal days of the Egyptian calendar. Her children would always stay close to her as she was the sky.ĭespite a curse from her father which left her barren, Nut seduced the god Thoth. She gave birth to all of the stars and planets.
The mythological separation came too late, and Nut was pregnant. This story explained the separation of the sky from the earth. Shu became the air that moves between the sky and the earth. Shu became jealous and separated the two. At one time, they embraced so tightly that nothing could come between them. In the creation story, Egyptians viewed Nut and Geb as passionate lovers. She became the sky, while her brother Geb became the god of earth. She was adopted into the family tree of the Egyptian gods as the daughter of Shu, the god of the air, and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture. In Lower Egypt, the Milky Way was viewed as the celestial image of Nut. Egyptologists believe that Nut was a sky goddess originally worshiped by the early tribes of the Nile Valley area.
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