. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 30. The Goddess ofDiospoLis Parva OTHER GODS CONNECTED WITH NATURE 41. Fig. 31. Nut Receiving the Dead as a sistrum, i. e. a sacred rattle, as It was used especiallyat the festivals of the joyful goddess.^^ The representation of the sky in human, feminine form,which Hat-hor might also assume, led to the identificationwith many goddesseswho were originallylocal, but who wereoften solarized in latertimes, among thesedivinities being Isis(sometimes with hersister and rival, Neph-thys), the Theban Mut, and the fiery Tefenet. For the noc-turnal sky in particul
. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 30. The Goddess ofDiospoLis Parva OTHER GODS CONNECTED WITH NATURE 41. Fig. 31. Nut Receiving the Dead as a sistrum, i. e. a sacred rattle, as It was used especiallyat the festivals of the joyful goddess.^^ The representation of the sky in human, feminine form,which Hat-hor might also assume, led to the identificationwith many goddesseswho were originallylocal, but who wereoften solarized in latertimes, among thesedivinities being Isis(sometimes with hersister and rival, Neph-thys), the Theban Mut, and the fiery Tefenet. For the noc-turnal sky in particular, the prevalent personification is Nut,^^who, in conformity with her name, is generally understood tobe a celestial counterpart of the abyss Nuu (or Nun?), i. e. asthe heavenly waters which form a continuation of the oceanthat flows around and under the earth. We should expect herto be Nuus consort, but she is seldom associated with him inthis capacity; she is, instead, the wife of theearth-god, by whom she gives birth to the suneach morning; and in similar fashion, as theone who bore (or bears) the go
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