Nut (Nuit, Nwt) was the personification of the sky and the heavens. She was the daughter Shuand Tefnut and the granddaughter of the creator god (Atum or Ra). Her husband/brother wasGeb the earth god. However, she could also be said to be the mother of Ra. In one myth Nut gives birth to the Sun-god daily and he passes over her body during the day before being swallowed at night only to be reborn the next morning. According to another myth Ra used the Atet (or Matet) boat to travel across her body until noon and then used the Sektet boat until sunset. She was thought to be the mother of five children on the five extra days of the Egyptian calendar known as the epagomenal days of the year. Apparently, Ra became annoyed because Geb and Nut were locked in a perpetual embrace so he asked Shu to sperarate them. He also decreed that Nut should not bear children on any day in the calendar, but Thoth won the five epagomenal days days from the moon and Nut had five children: Osiris who was born on the first day, Horus the Elder on the second, Set on the third, Isis on the fourth, andNephthys the last born on the fifth day. These days were a time of celebration all over Egypt
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:29:40 +0000
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