Nut - Egyptian Sky Goddess
Nut or Nuit whose star spangled body symbolises the vault of the sky is the mother of Osirus, Isis, Horus the Elder, Seth and Nephthys.
Nut's body was thought to arch over the Earth.
Every evening as the sun descended in the west over Mt Manu, she raised her head from her pillow (Mt Manu) and swallowed the settig sun which was known as the god, Ra.
Every morning she would give birth to him as the rising sun.
Associated with rebirth, she was also a funerary deity helping with the rebirth of the dead Pharoah.
She is often found face to face for eternity, on the underside of the Pharoah's sarcophagus.
Pyramid texts ask that: ' she enfold the body of the king and place herself over him, so that he may be placed among the imperishable stars and never die".
Nut's body was thought to arch over the Earth.
Every evening as the sun descended in the west over Mt Manu, she raised her head from her pillow (Mt Manu) and swallowed the settig sun which was known as the god, Ra.
Every morning she would give birth to him as the rising sun.
Associated with rebirth, she was also a funerary deity helping with the rebirth of the dead Pharoah.
She is often found face to face for eternity, on the underside of the Pharoah's sarcophagus.
Pyramid texts ask that: ' she enfold the body of the king and place herself over him, so that he may be placed among the imperishable stars and never die".
Nut - Egyptian Sky Goddess Linocut on Magnani Incisioni 310gsm 12 x 12cm
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