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The Story of the Mother of the Gods

In the darker times before there the first mortal every placed his foot upon the earth, the Gods and Goddess were as ancient as time immemorial. Ever still, as human as any mortal ever to come.

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My naked body is cloth in stars, my skin as blue as the sky. My eyes shine as brilliant as the sun, and my hair cloths and covers the world at night. My body is the sky and life falls from my body. I am the Great Mother, I am Nut.

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Nut mother of the Sun and Geb the Earth, both husband and wife and brother and sister fell desperately in love with each other. Consummating there love in a constant embrace, the Great god Ra disapproved, and forced the two apart for all eternity. Sending Nut to the Heavens and her lover husband to the Earth. Ra sought to keep them apart. He placed their father Shu between them; the God of the Air.

Nut was with child. Yet Ra the Great One forbade his granddaughter to give birth on any day of the calendar year.

Seeing the distress of Nut, Thoth the Great Cackler, the speaker of mortal life came to her with a solution. Having won against the moon playing draughts, he had won enough of the moon’s light for 5 extra new days that where not of the original calendar. Thus Nut was able to bear her 5 children on the 5 new days. Osiris, Horus the Elder, Seth, Isis and Nephythys.

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Every morning, Nut gave birth to the Sun Ra. Her grandfather Ra, who took on the form as the young beetle Khepera pushed the sun across the sky with his back legs. By noon Ra was at his height of strength and power and became Ra the Great once more, but as the day progressed and waned, he became the Aten, weaker and tiring old man. Entering into her mouth at dusk he travels her body through out the night to be reborn once more.

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I am Nut the Mother, the Mysterious One… I am the guardian protector of the lost souls of the dead. Come to me and I will take you through your journey through the land of dead. I am your guide and protector. Stay by my side and no harm shall be fall you. You shall be reborn!

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From the Book of the Dead

Homage to thee, O thou who hast come as Khepera, Khepera the creator of the gods, Thou art seated on thy throne, thou risest up in the sky, illumining thy mother [Nut], thou art seated on thy throne as the king of the gods. [Thy] mother Nut stretcheth out her hands, and performeth an act of homage to thee.

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The Company of the Gods rejoice at thy rising, the earth is glad when it beholdeth thy rays; the people who have been long dead come forth with cries of joy to behold thy beauties every day. Thou goest forth each day over heaven and earth, and thou art made strong each day by thy mother Nut.

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Homage to thee, O thou who art Ra when thou risest, and who art Atem when thou settest in beauty. Thou risest and thou shinest on the back of thy mother [Nut], O thou who art crowned the king of the gods! Nut welcometh thee, and payeth homage unto thee, and Ma'at, the everlasting and never-changing goddess, embraceth thee at noon and at eve.

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The gods rejoice greatly when they see my beautiful appearances from the body of the goddess Nut, and when the goddess Nut bringeth me forth.

Call upon me and I will make thee flourish!

Spell from the Book of the Dead: THE CHAPTER OF SNUFFING THE AIR, AND OF HAVING POWER OVER THE WATER IN KHERT-NETER.

The Osiris Ani saith:- Hail, thou Sycamore tree of the goddess Nut! Give me of the [water and of the] air which is in thee. I embrace that throne which is in Unu, and I keep guard over the Egg of Nekek-ur. It flourisheth, and I flourish; it liveth, and I live; it snuffeth the air, and I snuff the air, I the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, in [peace].

Nut

Nefermaat

Pictures from the "Theban Mapping Program" 1. Nut and Tutankhamun, 2 Nut book of caverns 3. Nut

Other pictures from Egyptian Gods site.
The two gods at the top of the page are Nut & Geb.