Attributes #2

Attributes #2

My main responsibility is giving birth to Ra, the sun god. Each day Ra sails along my belly, which tickles, I have to say, and then each night I swallow him and the world is plunged into darkness. Then, in the morning, I give birth to him, turning the sky red with my blood. During the day, the moon and stars are going through the same process and emerge at night. 

I am occasionally pictured as a cow, so the cow is associated with me. In some pictures I am also seen occasionally with a round Egyptian pot on top of my head. 

I do not know where I came from, as I myself am the embodiment of the sky which is a location in itself. 

As I mentioned before, I am an Egyptian goddess. I also was responsible for giving birth to some other very important Egyptian gods and goddesses. 

I am a very caring, mothering goddess. I had a strong desire to have children, and I was deeply in love with Geb, the god of the earth. So in love, in fact, that I had to be forcibly separated from him, so I suppose that my love is a flaw. 

My friends are Geb and my children. I have few enemies, but I consider my father, Shu, an enemy because he separated me from Geb. 

A pot of water is my symbol because my name is derived from the ancient Egyptian word for water.