Lessons from Nut, Goddess of the Night Sky

The Egyptian goddess Nut can teach us lessons about the power of motherhood and the eternally nurturing nature of the night. Learn more.

In ancient Egypt, the night sky, filled with stars and streaked with the Milky Way, was embodied by a goddess named Nut (pronounced “newt”). Nut is unusual in the sense that most ancient cultures understood the sky as masculine and the earth as feminine, but in ancient Egypt, the sky goddess wrapped herself lovingly around her beloved earth god, Geb. These two were so in love, so constantly connected, that the sun god Ra had to get between them, thus creating the day. Keep reading…