Introduction
Nut is the goddess of the sky, daughter of Shu and Tefnut and wife of the earth god Geb, whom Shu was said to hold apart from her to create the space of the habitable world.
Family
- Father: Shu
- Mother: Tefnut
- Spouse: Geb (married)
- Children: Osiris, Isis, Set (Seth), Nephthys, Horus the Elder
- Siblings: Geb
Mother of the Osiris Cycle
Nut was believed to swallow the sun each evening and give birth to it again each dawn, and, by extension, to receive and renew the dead in the same way — making her central to Egyptian funerary religion, where her image was commonly painted on the interior of coffin lids and tomb ceilings. With Geb she bore Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys, the four deities whose story forms the core of the Osiris myth.
Ancient Egyptian religion spanned three millennia and many regional cult centers, so parentage, roles and even gender pairings for a given deity often differ between the Heliopolitan, Hermopolitan, Memphite and Theban theological systems; the account above follows the most widely attested classical version.