egypt-museum:The Sky Goddess Nut represented doubleShe was seen as a star-covered nude woman arching
egypt-museum:The Sky Goddess Nut represented doubleShe was seen as a star-covered nude woman arching over the earth, or as a cow, considered one of the oldest deities among the Egyptian pantheon, with her origin being found on the creation story of Heliopolis. Nut was originally the goddess of the nighttime sky, but eventually became referred to as simply the sky goddess. (From The Dawn of Astronomy; J. Norman Lockyer, 1894). -- source link