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Nut , in Egyptian religion, sky-goddess. She was the sister-wife of the earth god Geb, to whom she bore Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. She was sometimes represented with her hands and feet on the earth and the curve of her body forming the vault of heaven.

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Nut / noōt/ Egyptian Mythol. the sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning.

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