Deity Egyptian mythology
Nut
Goddess of the sky in the Ennead of Egyptian mythology
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Nut
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 9
Kinship in an account 9
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Shu primordial Egyptian god, a personification of dry air, spouse and counterpart to goddess Tefnut -
child of (child) Tefnut deity of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Egyptian religion -
parent of (mother) Horus Egyptian sky deity -
parent of (mother) Isis Egyptian deity -
parent of (mother) Khepri Egyptian deity of the rising sun -
parent of (mother) Nephthys Egyptian deity -
parent of (mother) Osiris god of the afterlife in Egyptian mythology -
parent of (mother) Seth God of the desert, storms, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion -
partner of (spouse) Geb Egyptian deity of the Earth
Connections
How Nut connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
9 statements on this record
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 4 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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