| Title | Lunar Goddess of Moisture |
| Cult Center | Heliopolis |
| Gender | Female |
| Father | Ra The King of gods |
| Consort | Brother Shu |
| Sons and Daughters | Geb
Nut |
| Patron - Dominion | water - moisture - clouds |
| Dedicated temples | Cosmic deity with no dedicated temples |
| Appearance | A woman who wears on her head the solar disk circled by two cobras. She holds in her hands the sceptre and ankh
Head of a lionessA full lioness |
Ra created her and brother Shu from the semen which resulted from his primordial act of masturbation
Egyptians believed that without her water, Egypt could dry and burn in the sun.
According to the Pyramid Texts, she created pure water from her vagina
Tefnut and Shu the air god, started duality and the sexual cycle began in the universe
Tefnut was the first female to have sex, and the first mother giving birth to Geb the earth god, and Nut the goddess of the sky
Together the four members of this cosmic family, made up the quartet of major elements of the universe: earth, air, sky and water
She looks like Sekhmet, however, Tefnut's ears are routinely pointed, whereas Sekhmet's are rounded
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