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![]() 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 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 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.
Etymology[edit]
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with the pronunciation Tefnut has no certain etymology and is an onomatopoeia of the sound of spitting The spitting cobra with its body curled in a bowl and its head hooded like a wave as the wavy motion of the honeycomb ed skin offsets the waving motion of the hissing snake spit out of the mouth of the Atom
![]() Atum is shown as a man with a was-scepter to show his power, and an Ankh to symbolize his association to life. He is only later and rarely shown with a Double Crown. | ||||
Name in hieroglyphs |
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Major cult center | Heliopolis | |||
Genealogy | ||||
Consort | Iusaaset[1] or Nebethetepet[2] | |||
Children | Shu and Tefnut |
spits her out in some versions of the creation myth. Additionally, her name was written as a mouth spitting in late texts.[4]
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- Coordinate term: trial by fire
Like most Egyptian deities, including her brother, Tefnut has no single ideograph or symbol. Her name in hieroglyphs consists of four single phonogram signs t-f-n-t. Although the n phonogram is a representation of waves on the surface of water, it was never used as an ideogram or determinative for the word water (mw), or for anything associated with water.[5]
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