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
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I13
Major cult centerHeliopolis, Leontopolis
Symbol Lioness, Sun Disk
Personal information
ParentsRa or Atum
SiblingsShu, Hathor, Maat, Anhur, Sekhmet, Bastet, Mafdet, Satet
ConsortShu, Geb
OffspringGeb and Nut

Tefnut (Ancient Egyptian: tfn.t; Coptic: ⲧϥⲏⲛⲉ tfēne)[1][2] is a deity of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Egyptian religion.[3] She is the sister and consort of the air god Shu and the mother of Geb and Nut.

  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. ^ The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, George Hart ISBN 0-415-34495-6

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