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Nuit is also French for night.
As to eternal Mother then this is probably the Mother Mary that catholics always pray to. Note that there is no mother by any other name.
Nuit is a goddess of Thelema, a religion recognized by the US government, with tens of thousands of adherents around the globe. Several organizations recognize her as a Thelemic diety. She has a highly relevant position in the Thelemic canon. Please do not remove Thelemic references to her in this article. Thank you. Ashami 04:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
The result of the debate was move. — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 06:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Nuit (mythology) → Nuit … Rationale: should not have been moved, there are over 100 links to this page, 99% of which are intended for this page rather than the alternative, so disambig page is inappropriate … 999 08:27, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
The specific heiroglyphics said nwt (w is used for u often), not nuit. There would be
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if it were to say Nuit or
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The note on the Hieroglyphic is displaying at the top left of the article, between the dab and the first paragraph. That is why I moved it to the most logical secondary location, as I don't know how to make it display near the hieroglyph where it should. If you can figure out how to make it work, please fix it. Meanwhile, let's leave the note somewhere where it at least makes a litte sense. - 999 17:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
You should be able to fix it using a div tag or a table or something, but I am just not up on exactly how to make little boxes on WP. The location of the superscript is not at all obviously associated with the hieroglyph, it just looks bad. Maybe there is someplace on WP you can turn for help with a formatting issue like this. Can we just leave it where it is until you find some help with it? It really needs a proper solution - I agree it should go with the hieroglyph somehow and I'm sure somebody on WP knows how... - 999 19:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and by the way, I changed an Egyptian template and it moved most of the references to this article :-) So there are way less than a hundered now. I might even help you fix the rest if I have time. - 999 19:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
On this article there is a quote from the book of the dead: “Hail, thou Sycamore Tree of the Goddess Nut! Give me of the water and of the air which is in thee. I embrace that throne which is in Unu, and I keep guard over the Egg of Nekek-ur. It flourisheth, and I flourish; it liveth, and I live; it snuffeth the air, and I snuff the air, I the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, in peace.”
I have a translation of such book & I have read many other translations & yet I cannot seem to find this particular incantation in the book. Where did it come from?
Sandbaby ( talk) 02:12, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Try Chapter/Spell 59 - Faulkner's version:
"O you sycamore of the sky (Nut), may there be given to me the air which is in it, for I am he who sought out that throne in the middle of Wenu and I have guarded this Egg of the Great Cackler. If it grows, I will grow; if it lives, I will live; if it breathes the air, I will breathe the air." Apepch7 ( talk) 17:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Well I'm a bit of a wiki-novice but the ref would be: The Ancient Egyptian Book of The Dead, trans. R. O. Faulkner pub. British Museum Publications "Spell 59". Apepch7 ( talk) 20:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I just fixed a broken section header, and the pictures look kind of out of whack. It's just aesthetic, but if somebody who knows picture-fu could reposition them for better flow, it would be truly groovy. David A Spitzley ( talk) 03:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
I hate suggesting that this section be removed, but perhaps it should be. It is possibly based on an original scholarly account that has since been lost to modern recollection. That account possibly related the particulars of one of the tens of thousands of Egyptian source texts, also lost to modern recollection. (Note: "possibly" is there twice, and no references.) So while this account, here on Wikipedia for some years now, may have acted as a placeholder until such sources may be recovered, perhaps this section should be removed. Before making this suggestion, I searched a number of scholarly Egyptology texts at a couple local libraries and by interlibrary loan obtained another text. The editors of some ofd these encyclopedias, etc., made an apparent effort to be somewhat comprehensive. Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host ( talk) 21:01, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
P. CARLSBERG 1 Recto / verso: hieratic and Demotic, The Book of Nut. Publication : HO Lange - O. Neugebauer, Papyrus Carlsberg No. 1, ein hieratisch-demotischer kosmologischer Text (Copenhagen, 1940); O. Neugebauer - RA Parker, Egyptian astroomical texts, I: The early decans (Rhode Island, 1960), esp. pp. 36-94, pls. 36-42; W. Barta, "Zum Buch von der Himmelsgöttin Nut im Papyrus Carlsberg I", GM 63 (1983) pp. 7-12; JF Quack, "collation und zum Korrekturvorschläge Papyrus Carlsberg 1", The Carlsberg Papyri 3 (Copenhagen, 2000), pp. 165-71; A. von Lieven, Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne (Copenhagen, 2007).
P. CARLSBERG 1a Recto: hieratic and Demotic, The Book of Nut. Publication: O. Neugebauer - RA Parker, Egyptian astronomical texts, I: The early decans (Rhode Island, 1960), esp. pp. 36-94, pl. 43; A. von Lieven, Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne (Copenhagen, 2007). Verso: Blank. Joins: PSI inv. In the 92nd
Anyone familiar with these and whether they describe the Myth of Ra and Nut? Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host ( talk) 00:07, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Nut is linked as the feminine deification of Nu on the latter's page, but nothing is said about the Ogdoad here. If the Nut of the Ogdoad is indeed being considered the same Nut, then it seems some redirects (like Naunet) and links (as on the main page for Ogdoad) need to be sent here instead. But I'm not actually sure if that is the case? I can't tell if they were conflated or not later on. Either way, it seems like something worth mentioning on this page. 73.155.143.88 ( talk) 18:53, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
I think that we should change the picture. Mostly because I think it should be the sky goddess Nut with stars, sense the text mostly says that she is a starry figure and, yes it does say something about the pot she has on her head. But I would think a starry night Nut would be more helpful for the readers to picture her, sense most of the text is about a starry night Nut. TrollhunterFan ( talk) 01:26, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
One comes across much stuff anent Rhea being Nut. 2A00:23C7:2B13:9001:9CBC:2A3B:C539:BC64 ( talk) 07:32, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
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Nuit is also French for night.
As to eternal Mother then this is probably the Mother Mary that catholics always pray to. Note that there is no mother by any other name.
Nuit is a goddess of Thelema, a religion recognized by the US government, with tens of thousands of adherents around the globe. Several organizations recognize her as a Thelemic diety. She has a highly relevant position in the Thelemic canon. Please do not remove Thelemic references to her in this article. Thank you. Ashami 04:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
The result of the debate was move. — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 06:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Nuit (mythology) → Nuit … Rationale: should not have been moved, there are over 100 links to this page, 99% of which are intended for this page rather than the alternative, so disambig page is inappropriate … 999 08:27, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
The specific heiroglyphics said nwt (w is used for u often), not nuit. There would be
|
if it were to say Nuit or
|
The note on the Hieroglyphic is displaying at the top left of the article, between the dab and the first paragraph. That is why I moved it to the most logical secondary location, as I don't know how to make it display near the hieroglyph where it should. If you can figure out how to make it work, please fix it. Meanwhile, let's leave the note somewhere where it at least makes a litte sense. - 999 17:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
You should be able to fix it using a div tag or a table or something, but I am just not up on exactly how to make little boxes on WP. The location of the superscript is not at all obviously associated with the hieroglyph, it just looks bad. Maybe there is someplace on WP you can turn for help with a formatting issue like this. Can we just leave it where it is until you find some help with it? It really needs a proper solution - I agree it should go with the hieroglyph somehow and I'm sure somebody on WP knows how... - 999 19:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and by the way, I changed an Egyptian template and it moved most of the references to this article :-) So there are way less than a hundered now. I might even help you fix the rest if I have time. - 999 19:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
On this article there is a quote from the book of the dead: “Hail, thou Sycamore Tree of the Goddess Nut! Give me of the water and of the air which is in thee. I embrace that throne which is in Unu, and I keep guard over the Egg of Nekek-ur. It flourisheth, and I flourish; it liveth, and I live; it snuffeth the air, and I snuff the air, I the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, in peace.”
I have a translation of such book & I have read many other translations & yet I cannot seem to find this particular incantation in the book. Where did it come from?
Sandbaby ( talk) 02:12, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Try Chapter/Spell 59 - Faulkner's version:
"O you sycamore of the sky (Nut), may there be given to me the air which is in it, for I am he who sought out that throne in the middle of Wenu and I have guarded this Egg of the Great Cackler. If it grows, I will grow; if it lives, I will live; if it breathes the air, I will breathe the air." Apepch7 ( talk) 17:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Well I'm a bit of a wiki-novice but the ref would be: The Ancient Egyptian Book of The Dead, trans. R. O. Faulkner pub. British Museum Publications "Spell 59". Apepch7 ( talk) 20:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I just fixed a broken section header, and the pictures look kind of out of whack. It's just aesthetic, but if somebody who knows picture-fu could reposition them for better flow, it would be truly groovy. David A Spitzley ( talk) 03:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
I hate suggesting that this section be removed, but perhaps it should be. It is possibly based on an original scholarly account that has since been lost to modern recollection. That account possibly related the particulars of one of the tens of thousands of Egyptian source texts, also lost to modern recollection. (Note: "possibly" is there twice, and no references.) So while this account, here on Wikipedia for some years now, may have acted as a placeholder until such sources may be recovered, perhaps this section should be removed. Before making this suggestion, I searched a number of scholarly Egyptology texts at a couple local libraries and by interlibrary loan obtained another text. The editors of some ofd these encyclopedias, etc., made an apparent effort to be somewhat comprehensive. Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host ( talk) 21:01, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
P. CARLSBERG 1 Recto / verso: hieratic and Demotic, The Book of Nut. Publication : HO Lange - O. Neugebauer, Papyrus Carlsberg No. 1, ein hieratisch-demotischer kosmologischer Text (Copenhagen, 1940); O. Neugebauer - RA Parker, Egyptian astroomical texts, I: The early decans (Rhode Island, 1960), esp. pp. 36-94, pls. 36-42; W. Barta, "Zum Buch von der Himmelsgöttin Nut im Papyrus Carlsberg I", GM 63 (1983) pp. 7-12; JF Quack, "collation und zum Korrekturvorschläge Papyrus Carlsberg 1", The Carlsberg Papyri 3 (Copenhagen, 2000), pp. 165-71; A. von Lieven, Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne (Copenhagen, 2007).
P. CARLSBERG 1a Recto: hieratic and Demotic, The Book of Nut. Publication: O. Neugebauer - RA Parker, Egyptian astronomical texts, I: The early decans (Rhode Island, 1960), esp. pp. 36-94, pl. 43; A. von Lieven, Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne (Copenhagen, 2007). Verso: Blank. Joins: PSI inv. In the 92nd
Anyone familiar with these and whether they describe the Myth of Ra and Nut? Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host ( talk) 00:07, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Nut is linked as the feminine deification of Nu on the latter's page, but nothing is said about the Ogdoad here. If the Nut of the Ogdoad is indeed being considered the same Nut, then it seems some redirects (like Naunet) and links (as on the main page for Ogdoad) need to be sent here instead. But I'm not actually sure if that is the case? I can't tell if they were conflated or not later on. Either way, it seems like something worth mentioning on this page. 73.155.143.88 ( talk) 18:53, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
I think that we should change the picture. Mostly because I think it should be the sky goddess Nut with stars, sense the text mostly says that she is a starry figure and, yes it does say something about the pot she has on her head. But I would think a starry night Nut would be more helpful for the readers to picture her, sense most of the text is about a starry night Nut. TrollhunterFan ( talk) 01:26, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
One comes across much stuff anent Rhea being Nut. 2A00:23C7:2B13:9001:9CBC:2A3B:C539:BC64 ( talk) 07:32, 12 November 2022 (UTC)