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
Headrest that depicts the god Shu holding up the sky
Used as a counterweight for an ancient Egyptian menat
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.
Shu (god)
…and wind. In Heliopolitan theology, Atum created the first couple of the Ennead, Shu and Tefnut, by masturbating or by spitting. Shu was the father of Nut and Geb and grandfather of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. His great-grandsons are Horus and Anubis. As the air, Shu was considered to be a cooling…
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