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• Egyptian religion — Polytheistic belief system of ancient Egypt from the 4th millennium BC to the first centuries AD, including both folk traditions and the court religion. Local deities that sprang up along the Nile Valley had both human and animal form and were… …   Universalium

• Ancient Egyptian religion — Part of a series on Ancient Egyptian religion …   Wikipedia

• NUT —    the EGYPTIAN sky GODDESS who gave birth to ISIS and OSIRIS through incest with her brother …   Concise dictionary of Religion

• Egyptian pantheon — …   Wikipedia

• Nut (goddess) — This article is about the Egyptian sky goddess. For the goddess in the cosmology of Thelema, see Nuit. Nut and the Sun In the Ennead of Egyptian mythology, Nut (alternatively spelled Nuit, Newet, and Neuth) was the goddess of the sky …   Wikipedia

• nut — nutlike, adj. /nut/, n., v., nutted, nutting. n. 1. a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell. 2. the kernel itself. 3. Bot. a hard, indehiscent, one seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn. 4.… …   Universalium

• Nut — /nooht/, n. Egyptian Relig. the goddess of the sky, sometimes shown as a cow bearing Ra on her back and the stars on her underside. * * * In Egyptian religion, a goddess of the sky. She represented the vault of the heavens and was often depicted… …   Universalium

• Nut —    Egyptian goddess of the sky and wife of Geb, the god of earth. Mother of Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys. She is represented as a naked woman often in an arched position over her husband and is depicted on the inside of coffins as a protector …   Ancient Egypt

• Nut-Buch — Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne in Hieroglyphen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Religion —    For most of Egyptian history no attempt was made to develop a coherent religious theology for the entire country. Egypt consisted of many cities, each of which had a god or goddess to whom the inhabitants were particularly attached, along with …   Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Egyptian creation myths — The motif of the sun rising from a pyramidal mound was present in most Egyptian creation myths. Ancient Egyptian creation myths refers to the ancient Egyptian accounts of the creation of the world. The Pyramid Texts, tomb wall decorations and… …   Wikipedia