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	Egypt: Shu (God), Holder of the Sky, God of the Air, Wind, Sunlight and Protection
		Shu was created by asexually or by spitting, the first born of the sun god.
		Shu is both light and air, and as the offspring of god he is manifest life.
		Shu was the husband of his twin, the goddess Tefnut, son of the sun god Atem-Ra and father to the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/shu.htm (0 words)

	SHU : The deity from Egyptian Mythology
		SHU is the son of ATUM and fathered NUT (the Sky), and GEB (the Earth), with a little help from TEFNUT.
		As gravity hadn't yet been invented, SHU decided there must be another reason.
		SHU put a stop to all this, but not before NUT had given birth to some very important new Gods.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/egyptian-mythology.php?deity=SHU (0 words)

	Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Re
		Very early in Egyptian history, Re was identified with Horus, who as a falcon-god represented the loftiness of the skies.
		Re was the father of Shu and Tefnut, grandfather of Nut and Geb, great-grandfather of Osiris, Seth, Isis, Nephthys and great-great-grandfather of Horus.
		Seeing as that the sun was a fire, the Egyptians believed that in order to travel through the waters of heaven and the underworld, one required a boat and so Re traveled in one.
	www.egyptianmyths.net /re.htm (490 words)

	egyptian god ancient goddess Atum Bast Bes Duamutef Edjo Geb Hadit Hapi Hathor Harpocrates (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a result, an important deity in the home (since cats were prized pets) and also important in the iconography (since the serpents which attack the sun god were usually represented in papyri as being killed by cats).
		One of the Four Sons of Horus, Duamutef was represented as a mummified man with the head of a jackal.
		The god of the earth, son of Shu and Tefnut, brother and husband of Nut, and father of Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys.
	www.safariegypt.com /Information/egyptian_god.html (721 words)

	Directory of Ancient Egyptian Gods
		In Egyptian mythology Anat is the daughter of the solar deity Ra.
		Shu and Tefenet had intercourse and produced the next two deities of the Ennead, the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut.
		To the Egyptians, the scarab beetle was a symbol of rebirth, regeneration and transformation.
	www.osirisweb.com /egypt/director.htm (2058 words)

	The Jack-O-Witch Egyptian Temple - Deities & Creatures
		Egyptian ram-god of the underworld and ferryman of the dead.
		Egyptian god of the dead and of the land of the west, represented as a crouching dog or jackal with horns.
		Hathor was often symbolized by the papyrus reed, the snake, and the Egyptian rattle known as the sistrum.
	www.jackowitch.com /egyptiandeitiesCH.html (1905 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Shu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shu's name is the root of the words 'dry', 'parched', 'withered' and 'light', specifying him to be the dry component of the air where his sister and wife, Tefnut, is the moisture.
		Shu was one of the Ennead, both he and his twin sister Tefnut being the first deities to be created by Atum.
		Shu's main role was to hold up the sky from the earth, aided by the four Pillars of Shu at each cardinal point, much like the Greek titan Atlas.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Shu (716 words)

	Egyptian Pantheon
		She was regarded as a tutelary deity of the Egyptian pharaohs, and had a prominent part in the pharaoh's accession ceremonies.
		Egyptian goddess of the West and of the underworld of the dead.
		Egyptian sky god who came to be regarded as a sun god and the head of the Egyptian pantheon.
	library.thinkquest.org /12865/mray/pegy.htm (3246 words)

	Culturally Symbolic Sacred Art
		Geb was the son of Shu and Tefnut and the consort and brother of Nut.
		She was frequently depicted as a woman with a cow's head or ears suckling a child; a female wearing a crown of cow horns with a sun disc in the middle; or as a cow.
		Shu was often depicted as a human wearing an ostrich feather with upraised arms that supported Nut as she stretched across the sky above Geb as he laid on his back on the earth below.
	www.blessingscornucopia.com /Egypt_Egyptian_Ancient_Civilization_Culturally_Symbolic_Egyptian_Deities.htm (2886 words)

	Egyptian_Mythology
		Neith - One of the oldest Egyptian goddesses.
		Satet - The Egyptian goddess of the yearly flooding of the Nile, and of fertility.
		Shu - The Egyptian god of the space and light between the sky and the earth.
	www.ability.org.uk /egyptian.html (1366 words)

	Shu - ArchaeoWiki
		Shu was the ancient Egyptian god of the air, the atmosphere and of sunlight.
		Shu was most commonly depicted in anthropomorphic form as a male divine figure wearing a feather upon his head, the feather representing the hieroglyphic symbol for the name of the god.
		The god was frequently shown with arms raised in order to support the sky goddess Nut and to separate her from her brother and husband, the earth deity Geb.
	www.archaeowiki.org /Shu (223 words)

	Egyptian Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thus the first four deities establish the cosmos, and the later four are mediators between humans and the cosmos.
		Historically, the Egyptian gods were local deities venerated by the citizens of their cities, to whom they gave their protection.
		The Egyptians themselves generally wrote down only texts whose exact wording was of importance: magical spells, for instance, were deemed to be effective only if they were recited word for word [1].
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /egyptian_mythology.htm (1357 words)

	Basic Concept: Ancient Egyptian Religion
		Egyptian gods and goddesses (deities) were all forms of the Creator but they took on identities of their own.
		Shu, along with his sister Tefnut, were the first deities to be created by Atum.
		Without Shu holding the two apart, the Egyptians believed that there would be no area in which to create the life they saw all around them.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/hathor.html (1641 words)

	Egyptian gods
		A composite deity in Crowley's quasi-Egyptian mythology; composed of Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Hoor-par-kraat.
		The name, translated into Egyptian, means something approximating "Horus and Ra be Praised!" Of course, this could simply be another corruption due to the inferior Victorian understanding of the Egyptian language, and it is possible Crowley had something entirely different in mind for the translation of the name.
		Upper Egyptian patron goddess, represented as a vulture in iconography, and often part of the crown of the pharaoh, along with her Lower Egyptian counterpart Edjo.
	www.timstouse.com /EarthHistory/Egypt/gods.htm (4540 words)

	Shu - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		In Egyptian mythology, Shu is one of the primordial sky gods and one of the Ennead.
		In art, Shu was portrayed wearing an ostrich feather.
		Shu quickly decided he missed her, but she changed into a cat that destroyed any man or god that approached.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Shu (0 words)

	Shu - Egyptian Mythology - God of the Sky
		In Egyptian mythology, Shu (meaning dryness and he who rises up) is one of the primordial gods, a personification of air, one of the Ennead of Heliopolis.
		As the air, Shu was considered to be cooling, and thus calming, influence, and pacifier.
		Due to the association with air, calm, and thus Maat, Shu was portrayed in art as wearing an ostrich feather.
	www.egyptiandreams.co.uk /shu.php?osCsid=bd7b7c1d47bc622e8602a6dbaf1e447c (444 words)

	egyptian god ancient goddess Sati Seker Sekhmet Selket Serapis Set Shu Sobek Sothis Tefnut Thoth Thoueris (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The goddess of Elephantine, and the consort of Khnum.
		In earliest times, Set was the patron deity of Lower (Northern) Egypt, and represented the fierce storms of the desert whom the Lower Egyptians sought to appease.
		The goddess of moisture and clouds, daughter of Ra, sister and wife of Shu, mother of Geb and Nut.
	www.safariegypt.com /Information/egyptian_god_sati.html (1057 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Culture
		Shu and Tefnut later gave birth to Geb, the god of the earth in which the throne of the Pharaoh would be decided.
		Nut was also born from Tefnut and Shu as the Goddess of the sky, the separator between earth and Nu.
		Bastet: The Egyptian cat-headed goddess, Bastet was strictly a solar deity until the arrival of Greek influence on Egyptian society, when she became a lunar goddess due to the Greeks associating her with their Artemis.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/religion/mythology.htm (2199 words)

	Egyptian Deities in the Garden of Eden
		The confusion arises from the fact that Adam and Eve originally represented Heliopolitan deities, the most important of whom was named Atum, a name virtually identical in pronunciation to the Semitic word “Adam”, which was used to describe the human male.
		The Egyptians memorialized this sequence in their calendar, which names the last five days of the year after these five deities in the order of their births.
		Where Adam was essentially a fertile agricultural deity in the Garden of Eden, he has now been figuratively killed in that he now lives as a mortal and he must sweat out agricultural growth.
	members.tripod.com /ggreenberg/writings/w-egypt-eden.htm (3536 words)

	shu - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Shu (Chinese myth), emperor of the Northern Sea, according to the Chinese creation myth relating to the death of the emperor Hun Dun (or Chaos).
		Eida Berrio, Donna O’Brien, Antoine Garibaldi, and James Malespina were appointed to the Board of Regents.
		Shu may be a foreign word for: " rat ", " mouse ", or " rodent " in Chinese (鼠 (Shǔ)) " sect ", " branch " or " school " within the Buddhist religion in Japanese
	encarta.msn.com /shu.html (0 words)

	Egyptian Symbolism and Animal Worship
		The first-born of Ra by the goddess Hathor was Shu.
		It was Shu who was depicted holding up the sky and possibly from him the Greeks derived their representations of Atlas.
		Seb is the Egyptian Saturn, ushering in a new cycle of evolution.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ancientlandmarks/EgyptianSymbolsWorship.html (3451 words)

	Nekhebet.com - Egyptian Gods and Goddesses : Amun, Anubis, Bastet, Bes, Geb, Hapi
		The Egyptian goddess Bastet, daughter of Ra, was among the more popular of the ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses.
		Unlike the other Egyptian gods and goddesses, who were depicted in noble positions and likenesses, Bes was usually pictured to be a dwarf with a large head, stumpy legs and a generally ugly look.
		To the Egyptians, the Nile river was of the greatest importance.
	www.nekhebet.com /r_gods1.html (697 words)

	Shu (Egyptian deity) - MSN Encarta
		Shu (Egyptian deity), god of air, the offspring of the creator deity Ra and brother of Tefenet, the goddess of moisture.
		Shu and Tefenet produced the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Geb.
		Do high-profile schools really provide a better education?
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762504564/Shu_(Egyptian_deity).html (58 words)

	Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Geb
		Geb was the son of Shu and Tefnut and the brother and husband of Nut.
		It is interesting to note that while in most cultures the deity associated with the earth and it's bounty is a woman ("Mother Earth", Demeter of the Greeks, etc...), the Egyptians chose a male for this role.
		He pined for her and traveled throughout Egypt until his father Shu, who was the king of Egypt, died.
	www.egyptianmyths.net /geb.htm (352 words)

	Kunoichi's Recent Changes Page
		This star was the most important of the stars to the ancient Egyptians, and the heliacal rising of this star came at the time of inundation and the start of the Egyptian New Year.
		The Egyptians believed her to be an ancient and wise goddess, to whom the other gods came if they could not resolve their own disputes.
		He was the son of the creator god, father of the twin sky and the earth deities and the one who held the sky off of the earth.
	www.thekeep.org /~kunoichi/kunoichi/changes.html (2611 words)

	Virtual-Egypt - The Egyptian People's Papyrus
		Amen's name means "The Hidden One." Amen was the patron deity of the city of Thebes from earliest times, and was viewed (along with his consort Amenet) as a primordial creation-deity by the priests of Hermopolis.
		One of the Four Sons of Horus, Amset was represented as a mummified man. He was the protector of the liver of the deceased, and was protected by the goddess Isis.
		She was present at the judgement of the dead; her feather was balanced against the heart of the deceased to determine whether he had led a pure and honest life.
	www.virtual-egypt.com /newhtml/gods (4159 words)

	shu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shu is commonly spoken of as a son of Ra,
		In the former case he has the ordinary form of a male deity, but bears on his head either a single ostrich feather, or else a fourfold plume.
		Shu, like Tum, was a deity of the lower world, worshipped by the spirits in Hades, and invoked by them.
	www.dabar.org /Rawlinson/Raw-Ch10/shu.html (261 words)

	Pagan News - Pagan News & Information
		Nut (Nuit/Nuet) (pronounced Noot) was an Egyptian Sky-Goddess, separated from her consort and brother (Geb) by Ra.
		In Egyptian mythology, Nuit was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythologymythologies, where the Sky Father is nearly always male.
		Nuit is a daughter of Shu (Egyptian deity)Shu and Tefnut.
	www.pagannews.com /cgi-bin/gods3.pl?Nut (351 words)

	RealMagick Article: Shu by Mirjam
		In sacred art, Shu is shown in human form with an ostrich feather on his head, the hieroglyph of his name.
		Shu belongs to the cosmic deities and as such no temples were dedicated to him.
		"As one of the Heliopolitan Ennead, Geb is a cosmic deity and the eldest child of Shu.
	realmagick.com /articles/19/419.html (538 words)

	Egyptian Mythology B
		Ancient Egyptian culture, myth, and religion might be characterized as a duality with rhythmic structures contained within a static unity.
		Thus the first four deities establish the cosmos, and the later four are mediators between humans and the cosmos.
		Although kingship appears as the pivot around which Egyptian mythology revolves, the key mythological themes are creation, procreation, revival, and the unity of the two lands.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Ancient_religions/Egypt/egyptian_mythology_b.htm (829 words)

	RealMagick Article: Egyptian Temples, part I: A Reflection of Heaven by Mirjam
		The Egyptian religion can be seen as a system of thought, a means of structuring the world, and of maintaining it so as to make it possible for Creation to persist.
		The religion of the ancient Egyptians did not only include their natural surroundings and the state of affairs in society, but it also adhered deeply, almost mystically, to the inner world of the human mind.
		On the social level this was taken care of in the temples, and on the individual level one turned to the statuettes of gods in the shrines that was found in every Egyptian home.
	realmagick.com /articles/39/439.html (1177 words)

	Egyptian Goddesses Short Information
		Ancient Egyptians had no conception of Hell or place of punishment; but after death there came the weighing of the soul in presence of Osiris and Toth wrote the good and evil doings of the soul into a book.
		She is a complex Deity, who is on the one hand a Sky-Goddess and Matron of Love, yet also has a destructive element to Her nature, which is represented in Sachmet.
		Nut is the Mother of four of the primary Deities of the Egyptian pantheon: Isis, Osiris, Nephthys and Set.
	inanna.virtualave.net /egyptianshort.html (1774 words)

	Sekhmet, Serket, Seshat, Seth, Sobek, Sopdet
		Shu is one of the first two deities created by Atum, the sun-god of Heliopolis.
		Shu holds aloft the sky, and keeps separate his two children Geb the earth god, and Nut, the goddess of the sky.
		The Egyptian name of the goddess was "Sopdet", from which came the Greek Sothis, normally used in Ancient Egyptian studies.
	www.philae.nu /akhet/NetjeruS.html (4553 words)

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