Assignment #3- Three Cultural References
Another more contemporary reference to myself that I found was in the book series The Kane Chronicles. One of the main characters meets me and. at my request, delivers a letter to my husband, Geb who I still love.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Monday, February 2, 2015
Assignment #3-Three Cultural References
The above picture is a papyrus scroll that depicts me spanning the sky, protecting the world from the chaos that lies outside. Below, I am portrayed in an ancient sculpture. I am raising the sun from the inside of the Djedhor Sarcophagus.
Here I am painted on the inside of a sarcophagus to protect the mummy that was inside.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
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.
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.
Attributes Part 1
My name is Nut. You can call me Nwt, Nuit, Newet, or Neuth. I am the Egyptian goddess of the sky.
I am frequently portrayed as a woman stretching out across the sky with my hands and feet anchored to the earth, which makes me seem tall, and sometimes I am portrayed as a cow. My skin is varying shades of blue, and I am covered with starry markings.
My parents were the wind god, Shu, and his sister Tefnut. I have five important children: Osiris, Seth, Isis, Horus, and Nephthys. Geb, the god of the earth, is my brother and also my love.
I give birth to the sun every morning. I am a mother figure, and am frequently painted on the insides of sarcophagi to protect the dead and accompany them to the afterlife
Once, when I was carrying the sun god, Ra, high into the sky, my arms and legs became tired. As a result, eight He gods were created to help support me.
I am frequently portrayed as a woman stretching out across the sky with my hands and feet anchored to the earth, which makes me seem tall, and sometimes I am portrayed as a cow. My skin is varying shades of blue, and I am covered with starry markings.
My parents were the wind god, Shu, and his sister Tefnut. I have five important children: Osiris, Seth, Isis, Horus, and Nephthys. Geb, the god of the earth, is my brother and also my love.
I give birth to the sun every morning. I am a mother figure, and am frequently painted on the insides of sarcophagi to protect the dead and accompany them to the afterlife
Once, when I was carrying the sun god, Ra, high into the sky, my arms and legs became tired. As a result, eight He gods were created to help support me.
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