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| | KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GODDESS:TEFNUT |
 | | Tefnut is the daughter of Ra, sister and wife of Shu and mother to Geb and Nut. | | | 'Tefnut' derives from the root 'teftef, meaning 'to spit...to moisten' and the root 'nu' means 'water, sky'. |
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http://freespace.virgin.net/star.gate/tefnut.html
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| | Shu and Tefnut sometimes are mentioned together as Ruti, a pair of divinities who become visible in the ba apparitions of a male and a female lion. | | | Shu and Tefnut as lion pair, or Ruti, are implored to grant to the deceased king safe passage past their own divine presences along the horizon. | | | One must keep in mind that both aspects of the deceased, his Shu and Tefnut relatedness, are subsequently engaged in creative sexual union and that between these two is no empty space for a separate royal personage to coexist. |
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http://www.historyofreligions.com/helio.htm
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| | Feline Deities |
| | This is because in the Dendera Zodiac, Gemini, the Twins, is represented by Shu and Tefnut. | | | For us, Tefnut is a goddess of knowledge, in that she has the wisdom of the source of creation. | | | After their 'birth', Shu and Tefnut became separated from their father and were lost in the Nun, which were the vast primeval waters that existed before the world was created. |
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http://www.ladyoftheflame.co.uk/Deities.htm
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| | Atum -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Tefnut was an early predynastic deity, and was worshiped as part of a system of gods in the ancient Egyptian city of Heliopolis. | | | Shu and his sister and companion, Tefnut (goddess of moisture), were the first couple of the group of nine gods called the Ennead of Heliopolis. | | | The all-powerful sun-god Ra commanded Shu to separate the sky goddess Nut from her brother Geb, god of the Earth, and Shu eternally held the two apart from each... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011187?tocId=9011187
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| | Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet |
| | Tefnut and Sekhmet both have human female form with a head of the lion and both are recorded as daughters of Ra by the Egyptians. | | | Ra gave birth to Shu, god of the wind, and Tefnut who was called "the spitter" because she sent the rain. | | | To the Old Kingdom Egyptians, Nu was the divine father of the primordal waters from whence Ra, the sun, came forth. |
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http://www.tattooheaven.com/Sekhmet.html
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| | Geb, the Egyptian god of the earth, was the brother and consort of Nut, and eldest son of Shu and Tefnut, the deities of air and moisture. | | | She, along with Shu were worshipped in lion form for centuries at Leontopolis. | | | Ra gave birth to Shu, the god of air and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture. |
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http://www26.brinkster.com/chicleta/egypt.txt
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| | Out of Egypt—an Other Son |
| | Shu was rushing to fill the space—fill the realm that was delimited by the cosmic womb of Tefnut who, thereby, became a realm of living creatures. | | | So, at this second level of divine emanation we are aware of three divine names—Atum, Shu, and Tefnut (Father, Son, and Daughter). | | | But the fact that today we teach molecular theory without referring to Tefnut or Nut, has not stopped the priests of Atum from seeing her. |
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http://www.historyofreligions.com/outofe.htm
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| | Egypt: Gods - The Gods of Heliopolis |
| | The attributes of the god have been already described in the section which treats of the forms of the god Ra. | | | Unlike most of the gods of Egypt, Shu and Tefnut do not appear to have had set apart for them any special city or district, but at the same time titles were given to certain cities which presupposed some connection between them and these gods. | | | The deceased was nourished with the food of Shu, i.e., he lived upon light; and in the Roman period Shu was merged in Ra, the god of light. |
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http://www.touregypt.net/heliogod.htm
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| | Tefnut |
| | The primeval deities Shu and Tefnut were brought forth by Khepera, who was the developer of everything which comes into manifested being from latency. | | | The universe, then, is but the re-manifestation of a previous universe: the scarab standing for rebirth and regeneration, and the circle for karmic destiny in the universe as containing the seeds of life, brought into activity through reimbodiment or rebirth. | | | Egyptian goddess inseparably connected with her twin brother Shu, being brought forth by the sun god Tem (later known as Ra). |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/tefnut
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| | Spiral Nature - Spirituality - Egyptian - Creation |
| | THE HISTORY OF CREATION-B. [These are] the words of the god Neb-er-tcher, who said: "I am the creator of what hath come into being, and I myself came into being under the form of the god Khepera, and I came into being in primeval time. | | | I was ONE by myself, for they (i.e., the gods) had not been brought forth, and I had emitted from myself neither Shu nor Tefnut. | | | I had union with my closed hand, and I embraced my shadow as a wife, and I poured seed into my own mouth, and I sent forth from myself issue in the form of the gods Shu and Tefnut. |
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http://www.spiralnature.com/spirituality/egyptian/creation.html
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| | Egyptian gods; Thoth, Djehuti, Tawaret, Tefnut, |
| | Tefnut, meaning moisture like rain, dew and clouds, was according to myth created by the primeval god Atum of the Ennead in Heliopolis together with her brother Shu, air. | | | Tayet is known already from the Pyramid Texts where she is said to be the king´s mother who lifts him up to the sky. | | | Her image was often attached to beds, head-rests and cosmetic articles, but she is also depicted in the Book of Going Forth By Day and in temple reliefs. |
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http://www.philae.nu/akhet/NetjeruT.html
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| | Egyptian Gods and the Solar Eclipse - Part 6 |
| | At last, Tefnut was convinced to return, and the two gods led her home amidst great rejoicing. | | | The two lions were mighty enough to be promoted as guardians of their father, the Sun god, the King of the Universe. | | | At first she refused, but Thut explained to her the gloom that fell on Egypt because of her absence. |
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http://www.eclipse-chasers.com/egygod6.htm
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| | A Meeting With The Goddess Tefnut |
| | A recipe for Tefnut incense is given at the end of this meditation. | | | It has come into being through the union of Tefnut and Shu, the most primal beings, who were created to bring life and flesh and blood to the earth. | | | When it is time to finish the visualisation, return to the outer shrine of the temple and bid farewell to Tefnut, asking her if there is anything you may do for her in our world. |
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http://members.aol.com/MahesBast/Rituals/Tefnut.htm
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| | RealMagick Article: Shu by Mirjam |
| | The semen (or in an alternative tradition, the mucus sneezed by Atum from his nostrils) of Atum gave birth to Shu. | | | "Tefnut, meaning moisture like rain, dew and clouds, was according to myth created by the primeval god Atum of the Ennead in..." | | | Shu holds aloft the sky, and keeps separate his two children Geb the earth god, and Nut, the goddess of the sky. |
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http://realmagick.com/articles/19/419.html
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| | Beloved Netjer - My Lady, Tefnut |
| | I practice my beliefs in what I call "Tameran Wicca" which really just means I used the forms and styles of traditional wicca, but replace the God and Goddess with the ancient Egyptian Deities (Netjer) I have come to know so well. | | | I use rose incense or potpourri on my altar for Tefnut. | | | And of course, Hapi, Damutef, Quebesenof and Imset are always invited! |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7713/tefnut.html
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| | Gods and Goddesses |
| | Father of the first divine couple, Shu and Tefnut. | | | She was one of the "great nine" who sat in judgment of the dead. | | | Once, Tefnut left Egypt and went to live in the Nubian desert. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptgods2a.html
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| | CREATION-3 |
| | For those of us who believe that animal avatars usually have some discernible characteristic that relates to their main function, it is difficult to understand how a lioness should be related to "moisture". | | | Finally, we have the depiction of the Syrian goddess Ashtoreth, who "was regarded as a Moon-goddess (Budge 1969, II, p. | | | After Ra' has produced Shu and Tefnut in this myth, not by bearing them but by exhalation and expectoration, Ra'‘s father (J)nu complains: "They make to be weak my eye" (Budge 1969, I, p. |
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http://www.mega.nu:8080/protolanguage/proto-religion/creation-3.htm
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| | Ancient Egyptian Creation Stories |
| | Ra brought forth four children, the gods Shu and Geb and the goddesses Tefnut and Nut. | | | From these waters came Ra who, by himself, gave birth to Shu and Tefnut. | | | They proved to be ungrateful so Ra, and a council of gods, decided they should be destroyed. |
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http://www.mythome.org/creategy.html
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| | Egyptian : philosophy, poetrie and quotes |
| | I thought in my heart, I planned in myself, I made all forms being alone, before I ejected Shu, before I spat out Tefnut (1) before any other who was in me had become. | | | After I had joined together my members, I wept over them, and men came into being out of the tears which came out of my eyes. | | | It was my father the Watery Abyss who brought them up, and my eye followed them (?) while they became far from me. After having become one god, there were (now) three gods in me. When I came into being in this land, Shu and Tefnut jubilated in the Watery Abyss in which they were. |
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http://www.onelittleangel.com/wisdom/quotes/religion.asp?mc=58
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| | Internet Book of Shadows: Egyptian Metaphysics (Michael Poe) |
| | Bast or Bastet, was originally a lion headed goddess, associated in powers and attributes with Sekhmet and Tefnut, and as such, Bastet has powers of ferocity and rapacity. | | | It is her later cat-headed form that Bastet became so immensely popular, although she never ceased to be worshiped as a lion headed goddess. | | | The god Seb, Shu, the goddesses Nut and Tefnut defend people during their journeys. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos446.htm
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| | REALM OF THE GODS |
| | As Atum became linked with the god Ra, Tefnut and Shu took on the role of the "Eyes of Ra". | | | Along with her brother-husband Shu, they were the first deities created by Atum according to the Heliopolitan creation myth. | | | Tefnut became represented as a lioness and Shu as a lion. |
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http://gtae.users.btopenworld.com/godsTtoW.htm
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| | Mythographica - Ancient Egyptian Tarot |
| | The two gods in this card are Tefnut and Shu, twin children, the first beings created by Amun-Ra. | | | Shu proclaimed that, having given birth to the stars and plants, Nuit would not bear further children in any month of the year. | | | Tefnut was the goddess of moisture, and Shu the god of air. |
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http://www.mythographica.fsnet.co.uk/t/lovers.htm
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| | VI RELIGION |
| | The aim of this article is to further discussions of the Amarna Period religious beliefs, which need further clarification as to the role of the gods Shu, Atum, Tefnut, and many of the deities of the Heliopolitan cosmology. | | | The author suggests that there are numerous instances where the Amarna religious beliefs utilized traditional religious symbols and expressions not only in reference to the king, but also in how the queens of the Amarna Period were depicted. | | | Key words: Amarna; religious beliefs; Atum; Shu; Tefnut; Hathor; Maat; Khepri; Heliopolitan cosmology. |
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http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/aeb98/aeb98_6.html
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| | THE GODDESSES AND GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT |
| | With this call that is the word - creative power - Space-Air Shu and movement - Fire Tefnut became manifest and in turn they generated and separated the Earth Geb from the Sky Nut ending chaos and therefore giving the universe equilibrium and life. | | | There were also eight other gods of four joint couples Nedu and Nenet gods of the occult world. | | | In the Cosmology of Heliopolis before creation the absolute spirit RA became aware of himself "seeing" his own image Amun, then in the great silence he called his double "come to me", RA light and conscience of the universe calls Amun Spirit of the Universe to itself. |
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http://www.evenstarcreations.com/EX-EB-GOD-DESS.htm
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| | Egyptvoyager.com: Life in ancient Egypt - Women |
| | For example, the sun god Ra masturbated, and his semen turned into his children, Shu and Tefnut!) But one must remember that the writings were written by men, as women were illiterate, so many topics that would have only been of interest to women are absent from Egyptian writings. | | | As an interesting side note, one ancient poem showed that, just as today, women had to put up with men perving at them: |
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http://www.egyptvoyager.com/articles_womeninancientegypt_01.htm
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| | Virtual Egyptian - Aegis-Menat of Tefnut and Shu, Dyn. 20 |
| | “Goddess Tefnut and god Shu are the first two deities created by Atum, the sun-god of Heliopolis&; (Hart 1986:200). | | | An oxyrinchus (the Nile fish believed to have eaten the phallus of the god Osiris when Seth dismembered him and cast his body parts into the river) is carved at the bottom. | | | Aegis of Tefnut and a king, N.K. This bronze aegis-menat from the New Kingdom shows Goddess Tefnut as a lioness capped by a solar disc protected by the cobra, and God Shu as a human wearing a crown with feathers and an uraeus. |
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http://www.virtual-egyptian-museum.org/Collection/Content/MET.SS.00380.html
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| | Egyptian Myths |
| | Note: In other versions of this myth, Ra is also often known as Atum and Khepri. | | | He wept tears of joy at their return, and where these tears hit the ground, men grew from them. | | | Shu was the god of air and Tefnut, of moisture. |
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http://solar-heliospheric.engin.umich.edu/hjenning/Egyptianmyths.html
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| | Animals and the Gods of Ancient Egypt |
| | Tefnut was given the title, the Eye of Ra. | | | Many pharaohs associated themselves with lions, and so the lion came to symbolise rulership. | | | Shu, god of dry air, and Tefnut, goddess of moist air, were lion-headed and lioness-headed deities respectively. |
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http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_animalgods.html
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| | Originally they appear as streams of "radiance" or "glory" adorning the face of Ra, but in their rebellion they become a cloud of darkness threatening the light and life of Ra. | | | By this first act of creation, the solitary Atum, the "All," became three powers: the motionless sun god Ra ("Atum-Ra"), plus the two active powers of creation, Shu and Tefnut, by whose activity the distinct first forms of creation came into being. | | | Hence, the texts remember Tefnut as the Eye of the sun god, and the god Shu as the "pupil" of the Eye. |
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http://www.kronia.com/saturn/satheory.txt
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| | Egyptian Religion - The Beginning |
| | These became the god Shu and the goddess Tefnut | | | Shu and Tefnut had two off-spring, Geb (Father Earth) and Nut (Mother Sky). | | | Because Geb and Nut produced too many children, Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys, Ra decided that they should be kept apart by sending Shu and Tefnut to separate them. |
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http://www.fitzwimarc.org.uk/egypt/egypt4a.htm
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| | [ELFWOOD] SF&F Art / Laura Soriani (Draconica Nimbus) / 'Shu and Tefnut' |
| | It is a very beautiful picture, as are all of yours, But can I ask you something that confused me. You said that: "Shu and Tefnut are the two twins sons of Ra (or Atum)" but Tefnut is drawn in your picture as a girl. | | | They were the second king and Queen of the Black Lands after Ra left the Earth, disgusted by humans bad mood. | | | Shu was the god of air and the atmosfere; Tefnut was the goddess of the moist and, in the Ptolemaic period, was considered the hot atmosfere of the Underworld. |
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http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/d/r/draconica/shutefnut2.jpg.html
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| | Spirits of Ancient Egypt |
| | Gradually the world's order formed, but Shu and Tefnut became lost in the remaining darkness. | | | He/she spat out a son, Shu, god of the air. | | | First they were entwined, but Geb lifted Nut above him. |
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http://www.livescience.com/history/top10_intelligent_designs-7.html
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| | Tefnut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Egyptian mythology, Tefnut is a goddess of water and fertility, indeed her name means moist waters (i.e. | | | She was created by Atum (who later was thought to be the same as Ra) from the semen which resulted from his primordial act of masturbation or autofellatio, or from his mucus, a mythology that may be related to the alternative translation of her name - spat waters. | | | In a myth describing the terrible weather disaster at the end of the Old Kingdom (which was responsible for the end of the Old Kingdom), it was said that Tefnut (moisture) and Shu once argued, and she left Egypt. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefnut
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| | Tefnut |
| | Tefnut (OUTSIDE LINK to Temple of Awakening) NOTE: The Temple of Awakening site seems to be “dead”. | | | May the Goddess grant YOU love, peace, joy, bounty, and wisdom. | | | Tefnut is shown as a woman or a lioness or a woman with the head of a lioness. |
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http://www.teenwitch.com/DEITY/KMT/TEFNUT.HTM
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| | Kemet.org Names of Netjer : Tefnut |
| | She is sometimes shown as a full lion along with Her brother/twin Shu. | | | ABOUT US • THE HOUSE OF NETJER • LETTERS FROM THE NISUT | | | Tefnut is sometimes equated with Nit and Nut, and is depicted in New Kingdom jewelry and art as a female sphinx trampling the enemies of the Two Lands, equated with the Great Royal Wife of the king. |
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http://www.kemet.org/glossary/tefnut.html
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| | Egyptian Creation |
| | Shu was the son and was the god of air while Tefnut was the goddess of moisture. | | | Later, the gods made another eye, which was the moon. | | | Khepri cry, and his tears became men and women. |
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http://www.starsandseas.com/SAS_Mythology/Ecreate.htm
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| | NUT and GEB Egyptian goddess of the sky. heavens, and earth . |
| | NUT: Egyptian goddess of the sky and and heavens. | | | Daughter/Son of the air god Shu and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture. | | | TEFNUT: Tefnut is the goddess of daybreak (the goddess of dew and rain) and is associated with the mountains from which the sun rises. |
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http://waltm.net/nut-geb.htm
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| | Tefnut |
| | She grudgingly tolerates non-gods and will, with the slightest provocation, remind mortals that their place is to worship the god and bring them homage. | | | Tefnut is the Egyptian Goddess of wind and water. | | | When I designed Tefnut, Shu's sister, I tried to do something different. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/cyburbia/1398/id123.htm
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| | This family became known as the Great Ennead, from the Greek word ennea, meaning nine. | | | Shu was god of the air, which existed between the sky and the earth. | | | The nine gods of the Great Ennead were Atum, Shu and Tefnut, Geb and Nut, Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and Horus. |
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http://www.worldbook.com/features/ancient_egypt/html/myth_ennead.html
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| | Egypt: The Gods of Ancient Egypt - Tefnut |
| | Description: Tefnut, along with her brother Shu, was the first deity created by Atum in the beginning. | | | Egypt: The Gods of Ancient Egypt - Tefnut | | | At one time she argued with her father and left Egypt for Nubia. |
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http://touregypt.net/godsofegypt/tefnut.htm
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| | The Celestial Goddess Nout Papyrus Painting |
| | She is the personification of the sky and of the heavens, the daughter of Shu and Tefnut. | | | The mythology of Ancient Egypt is brought to life in this papyrus painting showing the Celestial Goddess Nout. | | | Nout was the barrier separating the forces of chaos from the ordered cosmos in this world. |
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http://www.fromcairo.com/nout.htm
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| | Sacred Symbols: Ancient Egypt |
| | In Sacred Symbols, the book refers to a picture of Khnum, a ram-headed god with curling horizontal horns, as Tefnut. | | | Tefnut is often depicted in a lion-headed god or as a full female. | | | Yet in another example, a picture of the ram-headed god Atum (a ram with horns curled around his ears), is referred to as Set, the god of thunder and storms. |
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http://www.rambles.net/sacred_egypt.html
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| | Statement of the Order of Shuti |
| | Other pairs of opposites are knowledge and ignorance, ability and inability, comprehension and noncomprehension, perception and nonperception, etc. Shu is a god of knowledge, the light of the sun. | | | With Tefnut's influence, Shuti is a god of active Satanic enlightenment. | | | Alone, either one would be dangerously unbalanced, and would have earned an evil reputation for his or her excesses. |
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http://www.xeper.org/rmenschel/oshuti.stmt.pub.html
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| | Learning Family studies Egyptian Myths & Legends |
| | Shu and Tefnut's children were Nut, the sky goddess, and Geb, the earth god. | | | He made the air and water gods (Shu and Tefnut) from his spit. | | | Each morning Re sailed his boat across the sky, and each night he got swallowed by Nut and fought a snake inside Nut all night. |
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http://www.learningfamily.net/reiser/9901-act/017legends.htm
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