NUT
Mystery
Reach for me
touch me
I am always beyond your grasp
Don't try to figure me out
for you can't
I am the ever present unfathomable unknown
I am the immensity of the star filled sky
I am beyond human comprehension
In the vastness of my being
I am a mystery
even to myself.
Nut (pronounced noot ) is the Egyptian Goddess of the night sky, also known as
the Great Deep, the Celestial Vault, who daily gives birth to the sun each
morning then consumes it again each night. Disapproving of the incest of Nut as
she lay over her brother Geb, the Earth, Ra, the sun or High God, had them pried
apart. Nut was then lifted into the sky where she remains, her body formed into
an arch. Painted inside the inner lid of a sarcophagus, she mothers and protects
the dead on their journey.
