Goddess Mut
Lady of Heaven
Cult Center: Thebes.
Attributes: Mut was the divine mother, the queen of all gods.
She was the female counterpart of Mut usurped many of the other Egyptian goddess that exhibited the attributes of motherhood. During the New Kingdom, The marriage of Mut and Amun was one of the great annual celebrations.
Amun would be brought from his temple at a great following would escort him to visit Mut at her temple at Luxor.
In spite of her marriage to Amun, Mut was bisexual, perhaps to reinforce her position as the mother of all things.
Her hieroglyphic symbol was a vulture, it was worn on the crowns of Egypt's queens to typify their motherhood.
Representation:
A woman wearing a vulture headdress, with the crown of upper and lower Egypt. In some pictures the heads of vultures project from her shoulders. Sometimes she holds a papyrus sceptre.
Relations:
Wife of Amun, mother of all the gods, mother of all living things.
Egyptian Religion:
A sky goddess and great divine Mother. Mut is thought to have originated in the Nile River delta or in Middle Egypt.
She came to prominence during the 18th dynasty (1539�?292 bce) as the companion of the god Amon at Thebes, forming the Theban triad with him and with the youthful god Khons, who was said to be Mut’s son.
The name Mut means “mother,�?and her role was that of an older woman among the gods. She was associated with the uraeus (rearing cobra), lionesses, and royal crowns.
At Thebes the principal festival of Mut was her “navigation�?on the distinctive horseshoe-shaped lake, or Isheru, that surrounded her temple complex at Karnak.
Mut was usually represented as a woman wearing the double crown (of Upper and Lower Egypt) typically worn by the king and by the god Atum.
She was also occasionally depicted with the head of a lioness, particularly when identified with other goddesses, principally Bastet and Sekhmet.
Egyptian Goddess of fertility. Her sacred candle color is Green.
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