thumb|Mut nursing the pharaoh, Seti I, in relief from the second hypostyle hall of Seti's mortuary temple in Abydos.
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Mut was an ancient Egyptian goddess often depicted nursing pharaohs, as seen in temple reliefs like those at the mortuary temple of Seti I in Abydos. She appears to have held significance in Egyptian religious beliefs as a maternal or nurturing deity connected to the pharaohs' divine legitimacy.
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Key facts
- Deity.type
- Egyptian
- Deity.name
- Mut
- Deity.image
- Mut.svg
- Deity.caption
- A contemporary image of goddess Mut, depicted as a woman wearing the double crown plus a royal vulture headdress, associating her with Nekhbet.
- Deity.hiero
- G14-t:H8-B1 or mt:t-B1
- Deity.cult_center
- Thebes
- Deity.symbol
- the Vulture
- Deity.parents
- Ra
- Deity.siblings
- Sekhmet, Hathor, Ma'at and Bastet
- Deity.consort
- Amun
- Deity.offspring
- Khonsu
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
13 sectionsContents
- Mythology
- Theban cosmogony
- Role in the Theban triad
- Eye of Ra
- Isheru
- Motherhood
- Patron of women
- Depictions
- In Karnak
- Personal piety
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Mut nursing the pharaoh, Seti I, in relief from the second hypostyle hall of Seti's mortuary temple in Abydos.
Mut (; also transliterated as Maut and Mout) was a mother goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt. Her name means mother in the ancient Egyptian language. Mut had many different aspects and attributes that changed and evolved greatly over the thousands of years of ancient Egyptian culture.