Myth Monday - Mother Goddess Nut

With Mother's Day coming soon, a mother goddess seemed a fitting subject for this week's Myth Monday. Today's Mother Goddess is a bit unusual. She's not an Earth Mother, nor is she a chthonic goddess, but a rare female cosmogonic sky deity. Nut is mother of the stars and the sun. She gives birth to them again every day, which, as Susan Tower Hollis ("Women of Ancient Egypt and the Sky Goddess Nut," The Journal of American Folklore, 1987) points out, is an appropriate function for a mother god. She is also a mortuary goddess, appearing in tombs and on coffins, and because of her role vis a vis the constellations and the sun, she gives order to the days. Read more about Nut and other Egyptian gods and goddesses.