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Origin of the name NUT.
Etymology of the name NUT.
Meaning of the baby name NUT.
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| NUT. A
name of the firmament adored as a goddess in the Egyptian Ritual of the
Dead. Like Hathor and Neith this goddess personified the celestial
space, but more especially the vault of heaven, under the form of a woman
bending down and touching the earth with her hands. She was also
called the mother of the gods, and of the stars also, being often
represented as having them in her womb, or giving birth to them. She
was also often sculptured or painted on the underside of the lids of the
sarcophagi, as protecting the mummy of the deceased. On the
sarcophagus of A-ero-ai in the Amhurst (formerly Lee) Collection, she is
represented as a woman, blue in flesh, extended over a man, also blue in
colour, who is rising up towards her, while his body falls to the ground,
the body being painted red or flesh colour. In the LIXth chapter of
the Ritual of the Dead, her office was to sustain the soul of the deceased
by pouring out the water of life, the goddess herself standing in the
boughs of the sacred sycamore tree. Nut must not be confounded with
the deity Nun, the personification of the primordial waters of chaos, or
with the goddesses Hathor, Neith, or Nephthys, although she fulfilled very
much the same offices, and was also represented occasionally like them as
cow-headed. (An
Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
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