Tefnut

Tefnut
Tefnut
	The goddess Tefnut portrayed as a woman with the head of a lioness and a sun disc resting on her head.
Name in hieroglyphs	or
Major cult center	Heliopolis, Leontopolis
Symbol	Lioness, Sun Disk
Genealogy
Parents	Ra or Atum
Siblings	Shu, Hathor, Maat, Anhur, Sekhmet, Bastet, Mafdet, Satet
Consort	Shu, Geb
Offspring	Geb and Nut

Tefnut (Ancient Egyptian: tfn.t; Coptic: ⲧϥⲏⲛⲉ tfēne)^[1]^[2] is a deity in Ancient Egyptian religion, the feminine counterpart of the air god Shu. Her mythological function is less clear than that of Shu,^[3] but Egyptologists have suggested she is connected with moisture, based on a passage in the Pyramid Texts in which she produces water, and on parallelism with Shu's connection with dry air.^[4]^[5] She was also one of the goddesses who could function as the fiery Eye of Ra.^[6]

^ "Tfn.t (Lemma ID 171880)". Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae.
^ Love, Edward O. D. (2021). "Innovative Scripts and Spellings at Narmoute/Narmouthis". Script Switching in Roman Egypt. de Gruyter. p. 312. doi:10.1515/9783110768435-014. ISBN 9783110768435. S2CID 245076169.
^ Allen, James P. (1988). Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts. Yale Egyptological Seminar. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-912532-14-1.
^ Hart, George (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, Second Edition. Routledge. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-203-02362-4.
^ Pinch, Geraldine (2002). Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-19-517024-5.
^ Pinch, Geraldine (2002). Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-19-517024-5.

[1] "Tfn.t (Lemma ID 171880)". Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae.

[2] Love, Edward O. D. (2021). "Innovative Scripts and Spellings at Narmoute/Narmouthis". Script Switching in Roman Egypt. de Gruyter. p. 312. doi:10.1515/9783110768435-014. ISBN 9783110768435. S2CID 245076169.

[3] Allen, James P. (1988). Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts. Yale Egyptological Seminar. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-912532-14-1.

[Hart_156-4] Hart, George (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, Second Edition. Routledge. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-203-02362-4.

[5] Pinch, Geraldine (2002). Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-19-517024-5.

[6] Pinch, Geraldine (2002). Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-19-517024-5.

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