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	Goddess Nut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nut is represented as a slim-limbed girl; supported only on the tips of her fingers and toes, she arches over the fallen body of Geb, who sprawls with limbs awry and phallus erect.
		Nut is supported by the god Shu in some representations, and her star-spangled belly forms a canopy for the earth.
		Nut grew rapidly to such an enormous height that it was feared her legs would snap, so to each leg was appointed a god whose duty was to stiffen and strengthen it.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/nut.html (231 words)

	Egypt, The cradle of Monotheism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As a goddess of the late historical period in Egypt Nut seems to have absorbed the attributes of a number of goddesses who possessed attributes somewhat similar to those of herself, and the identies of several old nature goddesses were merged in her.
		The goddess herself wears the vulture crown with the uraei, and above are the uraei of the South and North and the hawk of Horus wearing the white crown.
		According to another myth Nut was transformed into a huge cow, the legs of which her body was supported by Shu, as the body of Nut when in the form of a woman was borne up by this god.
	www.sis.gov.eg /cradle/english/cradlen.htm (2844 words)

	Nut
		The goddess Nut was the daughter of Shu and Tefnut, and the wife of Seb, the Earth-god, and the mother of
		Nut seems to have absorbed the attributes of a number of goddesses who possessed attributes somewhat similar to those of herself, and the identities of several old nature goddesses were merged in her.
		Nut was always regarded as a friend and protector of the dead, and the deceased appealed to her for food, help, and protection just as a son appeals to his mother.
	www.geocities.com /sacredtour/nut.html (2521 words)

	Nut (goddess) Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography at Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In myth, she originally lay eternally having sex with Geb, but Shu (the air) later separated them, and it was said that if she ever returned to that position, chaos would reign (because the world was the bit that existed between the two).
		Originally she was the goddess of the daytime sky, but in later times became the sky in general.
		The sun god, at this point Ra, was thought, on his nightly voyage, to enter her mouth after the sun set, and be reborn from her vulva when the sun rises.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Nut_%28goddess%29 (426 words)

	Nut, Egyptian Goddess of the Sky - A JOURNAL OF A POET - THE GODDESS AS MY MUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since Nut was also seen as a Goddess of the Dead, it was believed that Pharaohs entered her body when they died, and then they traveled through it until they exited it, at the time of their resurrection.
		Nut was a member of the Heliopolitan Ennead, and in her role as the mistress of all heavenly bodies, she was believed to be reaching across the sky from horizon to horizon, touching one with her hands and the other with her feet.
		Nut was also a Goddess of the late historical period of Egypt and as such, she absorbed a variety of attributes that had previously belonged to several other Goddesses into herself.
	angelfire.com /journal/ofapoet/nut.html (757 words)

	Nut
		The pharaoh was said to enter her body after death, from which he would later be resurrected.
		As sky-goddess Nut was portrayed as a naked woman covered with painted stars, held up by Shu.
		The principal sanctuary of Nut was at Heliopolis.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/n/nut.html (197 words)

	Goddess Nut and Creation
		Nut - pronouned Noot - was the Egyptian goddess of the sky and of the heavens.
		Nut was typically depicted as a woman with blue skin - her body covered with stars - standing on all fours - leaning over her husband, Geb - representing the sky arched over the Earth.
		Nut united with her brother the Earth god Geb, in a tight and passionate embrace until separated by Shu ('air') on the orders of Ra.
	www.crystalinks.com /nute.html (1079 words)

	Isis
		Isis was the daughter of the God Geb (Earth) and the Goddess Nut (Sky) according to Heliopolitan genealogy.
		As the goddess of food which was offered to the gods, she was Tcheft, and lived in the Temple of Tchefau.
		At a comparatively early period in Egyptian history Isis had absorbed the attributes of all the great primitive goddesses, and of all the local goddesses such as Nekhebet, Uatchet, Net, Bast, Hathor, etc., and she was even identified as the female counterpart of the primeval abyss of water from which sprang all life.
	www.crystalinks.com /isis.html (2696 words)

	NUT and GEB Egyptian goddess of the sky. heavens, and earth . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nut is shown as a woman with her elongated and naked body arching above Shu (She is held up by her father Shu - the god of the air).
		As Lord of the Air or Atmosphere, it was Shu's duty to seperate the sky (the goddess Nut) and the earth (Nut's husband, Geb).
		TEFNUT: Tefnut is the goddess of daybreak (the goddess of dew and rain) and is associated with the mountains from which the sun rises.
	waltm.net /nut-geb.htm (245 words)

	Nut, Egyptian goddess of the sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Egyptian goddess of the sky and of the heavens.
		Daughter of the air god Shu and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture, in the Heliopolitan genealogy.
		Nut was also a goddess of the dead, and the pharaoh was said to enter her body after death, from which he would later be resurrected.
	osiris.colorado.edu /LAB/GODS/nut.html (153 words)

	Nut, Egyptian Goddess of the Sky, Page Two - A JOURNAL OF A POET - THE GODDESS AS MY MUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Goddess Gaea was the Earth, and Uranus, who was the Heavens, was both her husband and her son.
		Nut was already pregnant with Geb's children, and she didn't know what to do.
		While Nut's love for Geb was so great that she had to forceably be kept apart from him for all eternity, the story of that love will always remain a tale of eternal love and desire, just as the earth and the sky will forever seem to meet, whenever you glance at the horizon.
	angelfire.com /journal/ofapoet/nut2.html (856 words)

	Egyptian Goddess-Nut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nut was originally a mother-goddess who had many children.
		As the sky goddess, she is shown stretching from horizon to horizon, touching only her fingertips and toes to the ground.
		Nut was considered to be the mother of the sun and the moon.
	members.aol.com /egyptart/nut.html (149 words)

	Egyptian Deities
		Ament - Goddess who lived in a tree at the edge of the desert where she watched the gates of the afterworld, welcoming the newly dead with bread and water.
		Tefnut - Tefnut is the goddess of daybreak, the goddess of dew and rain, and is associated with the mountains from which the sun rises.
		Shu, the son, represented the air and Tefnut, the daughter, was a goddess of moisture.
	www.isleofyew.com /egyptiandeity.htm (2408 words)

	Egypt: Gods - Nut
		As a goddess of the late historical period in Egypt Nut seems to have absorbed the attributes of a number of goddesses who possessed attributes somewhat simular to those of herself, and the identies of several old nature goddesses were merged in her.
		According to another myth Nut was transformed into a huge cow, the legs of which her body was supported by Shu, as the body of Nut when in the form of a women was borne up by this
		The identifaction of Nut with Api the hippopotamus goddess is very ancient, for the text of Unas {line 487 ff.} we read, "Come Shu, come Shu, come Shu, for"Unas is born on the thighs of Isis, and he hath sunk down "on the thighs of Nephthys, having been brought fourth.
	www.touregypt.net /NUT.HTM (1025 words)

	Goddess Gospel: January 2005
		Goddess Gospel is about the great goddess who I believe lives within all of us.
		A star and moon Goddess, Arianrhod was also called the Silver Wheel because the dead were carried on her Oar Wheel to Emania (the Moon-land or land of death), which belonged to her as a deity of reincarnation and karma.
		The Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess in Wales, her palace was Caer Arianrhod (Aurora Borealis), or the secret center of each initiate's spiritual being.
	goddessgospel.blogspot.com /2005_01_01_goddessgospel_archive.html (3749 words)

	Nut, Ancient Egyptian Mother-goddess and Goddess of the Starry Sky--Egyptian gods and goddesses sky goddesses pagan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nut is the Egyptian Sky-goddess and Mother of
		Nut and Geb were married in secret against the will of Ra, the one-time King of the Gods.
		Nut is also said to swallow the sun each night and give birth to Him in the morning, and Her sign is a vase shaped rather like a uterus.
	www.thaliatook.com /nut.html (515 words)

	Egyptian gods; Nefertum, Neith, Nekhbet, Nephtys, Nut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nit is sometimes a goddess of war, sometimes the patroness of weawing, a mortuary goddess and in later times an androgynous Creator goddess.
		Nut, belonging to the Heliopolitan Ennead was the mistress of all heavenly bodies and was thought to be reaching across the sky from horizon to horizon, touching them with her hands and feet.
		Nut was one of the cosmic deities and as such was never worshipped in a personified form.
	www.philae.nu /PerAnkh/perankhN.html (1941 words)

	Theses from Uppsala University : 3270 - Nut - The Goddess of Life in Text and Iconography
		Chapter 2 focuses on the presentation of the goddess as space and the way in which this aspect of her character is integrated in the world of myth.
		An analysis of the textual and iconographic elements connected to this motif reveals Nut as the dominate identity of the tree goddess.
		This connection between the tree and this goddess is, once again, based on the core attributes of space and water, inherent in the life generating role of Nut.
	publications.uu.se /theses/abstract.xsql?dbid=3270 (434 words)

	The Scarlet Letter \| v7n2 \| "Nuit: The Limitless Goddess" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The goddess of Liber AL has a rich and venerable identity; her character and message is consistent with the past and enlivens our present-day magick.
		Nut may have been portrayed this way because she is thought of as a woman continuously giving birth (by the nightly passage of the sun through her body).
		Nut is a friend and protector of the dead, who appeal to her as a child appeals to its mother: “O my Mother Nut, stretch yourself over me, that I may be placed among the imperishable stars which are in you, and that I may not die” [Coffin of Henut-wadjebu].
	www.scarletwoman.org /scarletletter/v7n2/v7n2_nuit.html (2605 words)

	Nut - Sky Goddess
		Nut arches her body like the arc of the sky, over the prone earth god, Geb.
		The position of Nut's body mirrors the shape of the hieroglyph for sky that is also part of her name.
		The ancient Egyptians believed that Nut swallowed the sun in the evening and gave birth to it in the morning.
	www.vivart.co.uk /vm02.htm (73 words)

	Nut
		Shu hoisted Nut into a great arch, but--such was the goddess's desire for her little brother Geb--he was forced to remain forever holding them apart, supporting the star-spangled belly of the sky queen.
		And that is how we see Nut in Egyptian art: a woman standing on her toes and bending forward in a perfect arch, her fingers touching the earth opposite her feet, her hair falling down like rain.
		Sometimes Nut took the form of a huge cow; such was the shape she wore when the god Ra decided to abandon the earth.
	www.hranajanto.com /goddessgallery/nut.html (346 words)

	Nekhebet.com - Egyptian Gods and Goddesses : Nut, Osiris, Ra, Sekhmet, Set, Thoth
		Nut was the daughter of Shu, the Egyptian god of air, and Tefnut, goddess of water.
		Nut's domain was the sky, and she was commonly pictured as a naked woman arching over the earth, with her hands and feet touching the ground.
		Nut is famous for being the mother of some of the most important egyptian gods: Osiris, Isis, Set and Nephthys.
	www.nekhebet.com /r_gods3.html (816 words)

	Nut
		Nut was the goddess of the sky, more specifically the vault of the heavens.
		Other times she was represented as a cow, which was the shape she had when she carried the sun god Re on her back, up to the heavens.
		Nut swallowed the sun in the evening, and gave birth to him in the morning.
	i-cias.com /e.o/nut.htm (119 words)

	Nut, Goddess of Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Disapproving of the incest of Nut as she lay over her brother Geb, the earth, Ra, the sun or high Gd, had them pried apart.
		Nut was then lifted into the sky where she remains, her body formed into an arch.
		The Goddess says the way to nurture wholeness is for you to trust that the mystery you let in will be exactly what you need for your journey to wholeness.
	www.angelfire.com /va/goddesses/nut.html (214 words)

	Mother's Day: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nut, goddess of the sky and wife of Re, the god of the sun and creator of all, was known for her incredible beauty and kindness.
		Her firstborn, Osiris, was the son of Re and went on to become the god of all the earth.
		The extra five days Thoth added to the solar year were devoted to celebrations in honor of the goddess Nut and were held in late February just before the beginning of the new solar year which heretofore had been only 360 days in length.
	www.goddessgift.com /pandora's_box/mothers-day-history.htm (1214 words)

	Nut
		Nut was the Goddess of heavens and sky.
		As a goddess who gave birth to the son each day, she became connected with the underworld, resurrection and the tomb.
		On the Southern section of this image - Nut has ten solar disks running along her body, as well as one at her mouth and another one at the birth canal between her legs painted with the image of Khepri (the god of coming into being).
	www.crystalinks.com /nut.html (1092 words)

	Nut, Sky Goddess, Mother of the Gods... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To the ancient Egyptians Nut (Nuit) was the personification of the sky (originally she was a goddess of just the sky at day, where the clouds formed) and the heavens.
		She was believed to be the daughter of the gods Shu and Tefnut, the granddaughter of the sun god Ra.
		Nut welcometh thee, and payeth homage unto thee, and Ma'at, the everlasting and never-changing goddess, embraceth thee at noon and at eve.
	www.thekeep.org /~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/nut.html (895 words)

	Hathor, Egyptian cow goddess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She was depicted either as a cow or in human form wearing a crown consisting of a sun disk held between the horns of a cow.
		At Dandarah, she was particularly worshipped in her role as a goddess of fertility, of women, and of childbirth.
		At Thebes she was regarded as a goddess of the dead under the title of the "Lady of the West", associated with the sun god Re on his descent below the western horizon.
	sobek.colorado.edu /LAB/GODS/hathor.html (304 words)

	GoldenCalfHathorReliefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Goddess who personified the sky...In the Book of the Dead there are several allusions to the meat and drink Nut provides for the deceased.
		Grant thou to me of THE WATER and of the air WHICH DWELL IN THEE." In one myth, Ra passed between the goddess' two turquoise-colored sycamores at Heliopolis when he began his journey across the sky each morning...In Egyptian art Nut was usually portrayed as a woman bearing a vase of water upon her head.
		In general she is a milk goddess quenching the thirst of mankind with divine liquid described as the 'beer of Hesat'." (http://www.duke.edu/~bwt1/egypt/cow.html)
	www.bibleorigins.net /GoldenCalfHathorReliefs.html (3702 words)

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