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In Egyptian mythology, Nuit was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythologies, where the Sky Father[?] is nearly always male. Nuit is a daughter of Shu and Tefnut. She was one of the Ennead.

The sun god Re entered her mouth after the sun set in the evening and was reborn from her vulva the next morning. She also swallowed and rebirthed the stars.

She was a goddess of death, and her image is on the inside of most sarcophagi. The pharaoh entered her body after death and was later resurrected.

In art, Nuit is depicted as a woman wearing no clothes, covered with stars and supported by Shu; opposite her (the upper area, the sky), is her husband, Seb, the Earth. With Seb, she was the mother of Osiris, Horus, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys.



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