Cairo Antiquities Museum sarcophagus
I became enchanted with this Goddess from the first day I saw the image in the Cairo Antiquities museum carved into the lid of a sarcophagus- she is the sky “mother.” We found the image all over Pharonic Egypt. Painted into the ceilings of tombs and illustrated elaborately on papyrus in connection with a Pharonic calendar.
Queen/goddess Nut image with calendar
The following is from the web:
Egyptian goddess of the sky and of the heavens. Daughter of the air god Shu and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture, in the Heliopolitan genealogy. She was typically depicted as a woman with her elongated and naked body arching above Shu and the earth god Geb to form the heavens. Sometimes she appeared in the form of a cow whose body forms the sky and heavens. Nut was the barrier separating the forces of chaos from the ordered cosmos in this world. Her fingers and toes were believed to touch the four cardinal points or directions. The sun god Re was said to enter her mouth after setting in the evening and travel through her body during the night to be reborn from her vagina each morning. Nut was also a goddess of the dead, and the pharaoh was said to enter her body after death, from which he would later be resurrected. Her principal sanctuary was at Heliopolis.
ceiling stars - Nut - at Hatchupset temple in Luxor
Now for the “wo-wo” thing (cue Twilight Zone theme) When I was surfing the web to find info on Nut I found a site that connected, for the author, Nut and the myths about “Spirals”