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In the Ennead mythology, Nut (alternatively spelled Nuit, Newet, and Neuth. Her name means "Night". Some of the titles of Nut were "Coverer of the Sky", "She Who Protects", "Mistress of All", and "She Who Holds a Thousand Souls". Nut was the goddess of the sky and all heavenly bodies, a symbol of resurrection and rebirth. According to the Egyptians, the heavenly bodies would enter her mouth, traverse her skies and be reborn with dawn out of her womb. A sacred symbol of Nut was the ladder…

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Who is Nut? Wife and sister of Geb Mother of Isis, Osiris, Seth and Nephthys Depicted as stretched over the Earth, her hands and feet are the cardinal points. Protects the world from the chaos beyond, maintains all that is in existence. Mistress of the heavenly bodies - draws stars into her mouth and expels them from her womb in a repeating cycle. Colours - Indigo of the night sky and the silver lights of the stars.

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The goddess Nut as a starry sky. In the lid of the mummy box of Peftjaoeneith, the goddess Nut is depicted in her nocturnal form. Her black skin is strewn with stars. She swallows the red evening sun and gives birth to the crescent moon. On either side are the twelve hours of the day (right with solar disk) and of the night (left with a star). In this cycle of sun, moon and stars, the dead also hopes to be included. Wood. Origin unknown. Late Period. 26 Dyn. 664-525 BC RMO LEIDEN.HOLLAND

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When we were in Cairo, we visited a Papyrus place. I forget now if it was called a "Papyrus School" or a "Papyrus Factory." It was a tourist stop, and inside a man demonstrated the making of papyrus paper. Click here to read about the process of making paper from papyrus. Apparently papyrus paper does not tear. Its wrinkles can be smoothened away. It has long life, so that papyrus from thousands of years ago still exist. Hyped up like that our small group of 30 was eager to buy papyrus. The…

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Nut- Woman whose body arches across the sky, wearing a dress decorated with stars. Sky goddess, whose body created a vault or canopy across the earth. Mother of Isis Osiris, Nepthys and Seth. It was believed that at the end of the day she swallowed the sun god Ra and gave birth to him again the next morning.

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