Nut is often portrayed sitting in a tree, offering food and drink to the birds. From an Egyptian perspective, the migrating birds seemed to follow the Milky Way — they arrived from the northeast ...

The sky goddess Nut, covered with stars, is held aloft by her father, Shu, and arches over Geb, her brother god of Earth. On the left, the rising sun (the falcon-headed god Re) sails through Nut's ...

Various Egyptian gods are either associated with, symbolize, or directly embody certain celestial objects. In his study, Dr. Graur reviewed 125 images of the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced "Noot ...