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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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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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Tefnut

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Tefnut (Ancient Egyptian: tfn.t; Coptic: ⲧϥⲏⲛⲉ tfēne) is a deity of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Egyptian religion. She is the sister and...

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Ennead

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mythology worshipped at Heliopolis: the sun god Atum; his children Shu and Tefnut; their children Geb and Nut; and their children Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys...

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Atum

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from whom all else arose. He created himself and is the father of Shu and Tefnut, the divine couple, who are the ancestors of the other Egyptian deities...

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Eye of Ra

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of the world, when the solar creator—either Ra or Atum—is alone. Shu and Tefnut, the children of this creator god, have drifted away from him in the waters...

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Ancient Egyptian creation myths

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emerged from a chaotic state of the world and gave rise to Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture), from whose union came Geb (earth) and Nut (sky), who in turn...

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Ra

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beings coexisted. He created Shu, god of air, and the goddess of moisture, Tefnut. The siblings symbolized two universal principles of humans: life and right...

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Geb

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daytime and nightly firmament, the son of the earlier primordial elements Tefnut (moisture) and Shu ("emptiness"), and the father to the four lesser gods...

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Iusaaset

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masturbated, or copulated with himself, to produce the deities Shu and Tefnut, thus beginning the process of creation. The hand he used in this act was...

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Anhur

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identified with Shu, becoming Anhur-Shu. He is the son of Ra and brother of Tefnut if identified as Shu. Amenhotep, from the time of Thutmose IV. Amenhotep's...

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List of coupled siblings

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Redford (2005), "Nut" & "Geb". Shu and Tefnut: Leeming (2006), "Shu and Tefnut". Redford (2005), "Shu" & "Tefnut". Osiris and Isis: Leeming (2006), "Osiris...

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Autofellatio

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a poem narrating how the sun god Ra had created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by fellating himself and spitting out his own semen onto the ground. In...

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Bastet

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goddesses, who are said to represent one original goddess, Bastet, Mut, Tefnut, Hathor, and Sakhmet, and came to be associated with sun gods such as Horus...

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Temple of Kom Ombo

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"with Tasenetnofret (the Good Sister, a special form of Hathor or Tefnet/Tefnut) and Panebtawy (Lord of the Two Lands)". The temple is atypical because...

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Mehit

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syncretized with Shu and Mehit with Hathor-Tefnut, Shu's mythological sister and wife. Because Shu and Tefnut sometimes represented the sun and moon, Mehit...

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Dawn deities

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become syncretized with similar solar deities. In Egyptian mythology, Tefnut, in part of her being goddess of the morning dew. In Sioux mythology, Anpao...

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Ptah

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the god Re: the Ba. The two Ba are identified as the twin gods Shu and Tefnut and are associated with the djed pillar of Memphis. Finally, Ptah is embodied...

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Sekhmet

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inebriated to continue killing, this saving humanity from destruction. Tefnut – Ancient Egyptian goddess List of solar deities List of war deities List...

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Yahweh

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Buchis Geb Horus Isis Montu Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Qetesh Ra Set Shu Tefnut Thoth Arabian Allah Aglibol Abgal al-Lat al-Qaum al-‘Uzzá Atarsamain ʿAṯtar...

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Moritz Grossmann

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Other models as of 2015 are the Benu, Benu Power Reserve, Atum, Tefnut and Tefnut Lady. All models take their names from Ancient Egyptian deities. List...

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Allah

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Buchis Geb Horus Isis Montu Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Qetesh Ra Set Shu Tefnut Thoth Arabian Allah Aglibol Abgal al-Lat al-Qaum al-‘Uzzá Atarsamain ʿAṯtar...

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Lion

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being partially lion including the war deities Sekhmet and Maahes, and Tefnut the goddess of moisture. Shu, god of the air, was depicted kneeing between...

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Hathor

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all things within himself, was said to have produced his children Shu and Tefnut, and thus begun the process of creation, by masturbating. The hand he used...

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List of Egyptian deities

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them in war, the consort of Ptah and one of many forms of the Eye of Ra. Tefnut – Lioness goddess of moisture and a member of the Ennead Wadjet (Uatchit)...

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List of legendary creatures by type

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Taweret – depicted as a hippopotamus with lion paws and crocodile tail Tefnut – Tutu – body of a striding, winged lion, the head of a human, other heads...

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Horus

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Heh Kauket Kek Naunet Nu Ennead Atum Geb Isis Nephthys Nut Osiris Set Shu Tefnut A Aati Aker Akhty Amenhotep, son of Hapu Amesemi Ammit Am-heh Amu-Aa Anat...

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Imhotep

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Heh Kauket Kek Naunet Nu Ennead Atum Geb Isis Nephthys Nut Osiris Set Shu Tefnut A Aati Aker Akhty Amenhotep, son of Hapu Amesemi Ammit Am-heh Amu-Aa Anat...

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