Month: December 2016

Epithets of Nut

• At Whose Feet is Eternity
• Brilliant One
• Coffin
• Coverer of Heaven
• Daughter
• Daughter of Shu
• Dominates the Northern Sky
• Effective One
• Established One of Geb
• Eye of Ra
• Female Pig Who Eats Her Piglets
• Goddess of the Sycamore Tree
• Grand Horizon
• Great
• Great Being Who is in the World of the Dead
• Great Divine Beloved Soul
• Great Ihet-Cow Who Brings Ra into the Day
• Great Lady
• Great, Mother of God
• Great One
• Great Princess at the Birthplace
• Great, Who Gave Birth to the Gods
• Great Wild Cow
• Heavenly Cow
• In Whose Hand is the Always
• Lady of Heaven
• Lady of the Sycamore
• Land of Your West
• Lofty One
• Mighty Goddess in the Womb of Your Mother Tefnut
• Mighty One in Your Mother
• Mistress of Big
• Mistress of Heaven/the Sky
• Mistress Over the Earth
• Mother
• Mother of All the Gods
• Mother of God
• Mother of God of the Gods and Goddesses
• Mother of Heaven
• Mother of Set
• Mother of the Gods
• Mother of the Stars
• Mysterious One
• One with a Thousand Souls
• One Who Hears
• Perfect Daughter
• Powerful from Her Mother
• Queen of All Gods and Goddesses
• Sarcophagus
• Scepter of the Sky
• Sepulcher
• She Who Bore the Gods
• She Who Comes Out of the Arms of Aker
• She Who Extends Her Arms
• She Who Gives Birth to the Gods
• She Who Gives Birth to Ra Everyday
• Sky
• Soul of the Brilliant One
• Sovereign of All the Gods
• She of the Braided Hair Who Bore the Gods
• The Great
• The Mighty
• Uniter of the Two Lands of Geb
• Uraeus Serpent
• Veil of Heaven
• Venerable One
• Venerable and Powerful
• Venerable in the Shrine-of-the-Venerable
• Who Bore the Gods
• Who Came into Being in the Sky
• Who Counts the Days
• Who Does Fill Every Place with Her Beauty
• Who Gave Birth to the Gods
• Who Gives Birth to the Gods
• Who Gives Birth to the Rulers of the Country
• Who Has Given Birth to All the Gods
• Who is Crowned like the King of the North
• Who is Mighty
• Who is in the Mysterious Abyss
• Who Protects the Son of Wesir
• Who Rose in Splendor as the Bee
• Who Shelters Him (Heru)
• Who Spreadest Over Me
• Whose Adornments are Among the Goddesses
• You are Above Your Father Shu
• You Have Encompassed the Earth, Everything is in Your Two Hands
• You have United the Earth in Every Place

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