Nut (goddess)
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Nut, also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient Egyptian religion.
Nut, personification of the night-sky, speckled with stars, from inside the coffin of Peftjauneith.
Nut swallows the Sun, which travels through her body at night to be reborn at dawn.
The sky goddess Nut depicted as a cow
Shu (god)
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Shu was one of the primordial Egyptian gods, spouse and brother to the goddess Tefnut, and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony. He was the god of light, peace, lions, air
Nut (goddess)
…She also appears in the hieroglyphic record by a number of epithets, not all of which are understood. Nut is a daughter of Shu and Tefnut. Her brother and husband is Geb. She had four children – Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys – to which is added Horus in a Graeco-Egyptian…
Headrest that depicts the god Shu holding up the sky
Used as a counterweight for an ancient Egyptian menat