| Tefnut | |||||
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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 in Ancient Egyptian religion, the feminine counterpart of the air god Shu. Her mythological function is less clear than that of Shu,[3] but Egyptologists have suggested she is connected with moisture, based on a passage in the Pyramid Texts in which she produces water, and on parallelism with Shu's connection with dry air.[4][5] She was also one of the goddesses who could function as the fiery Eye of Ra.[6]
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- ^ Hart, George (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, Second Edition. Routledge. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-203-02362-4.
- ^ Pinch, Geraldine (2002). Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-19-517024-5.
- ^ Pinch, Geraldine (2002). Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-19-517024-5.