Search for dissertations about: "nut the goddess of life"

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2. 1. Nut - The Goddess of Life in Text and Iconography

   Author : Nils Billing; Saphinaz-Amal Naguib; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Egyptologi; Ancient Egyptian religion; goddess; mother; water; space; ontology; Pyramid Texts; horizon; tree goddess; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi;

   Abstract : This study delineates the basic characteristics of the ancient Egyptian goddess Nut as expressed in funerary texts and iconography. The goddess is treated as conceptual in character (Begriffsgottheit), i.e. as an animate expression for the ideas that the ancient Egyptians associated with the sky: space and water. READ MORE