Tefnut

Tefnut
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 centerHeliopolis, Leontopolis
SymbolLioness, Sun Disk
Genealogy
ParentsRa or Atum
SiblingsShu, Hathor, Maat, Anhur, Sekhmet, Bastet, Mafdet, Satet
ConsortShu, Geb
OffspringGeb and Nut

Tefnut (Ancient Egyptian: tfn.t; Coptic: ⲧϥⲏⲛⲉ tfēne) 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, 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. She was also one of the goddesses who could function as the fiery Eye of Ra.

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