Nuit

From Free Encyclopedia of Thelema


The Ennead
Ra Shu Tefnut Nut Geb	Nephthys Osiris Isis Set
The Ogdoad
Nu/Naunet Amoun/Amaunet	Kuk/Kauket Huh/Hauhet
Other Egyptian Gods
Anubis Anuket Apophis Apis Astarte Aten Bast Bes Hapi Hathor Horus Harpocrates	Khephra Khonsu Khnum Ma'at Mentu Neith Nut Ptah Sebek Sekhmet Tahuti Tawaret Tum

In Egyptian mythology, Nuit or Nut was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythologies, which usually have a sky father. Nuit is a daughter of Shu god of the air and Tefnut. She was one of the Ennead. The sun god Ra entered her mouth after the sun set in the evening and was reborn from her vulva the next morning. She also swallowed and rebirthed the stars. The eternal mother.

Nut's colours are the indigo of the night sky and the silver lights of the stars.

She was a goddess of death, and her image is on the inside of most sarcophagi. The Pharaoh entered her body after death and was later resurrected. Nut was the coffin of the heavens.

In art, Nuit is depicted as a woman wearing no clothes, covered with stars and supported by Shu; opposite her (the sky), is her husband, Geb or Seb (the Earth). Wife and sister of Geb, she was the mother of Osiris, Horus, Set, Isis, and Nephthys. Osiris and Isis were their first born male and female children and the original governors of Egypt. Their younger siblings are Set, the god of destruction, and Nephthys.

As goddess of the sky, she is often depicted with her body stretched out over the earth as a protective mother shielding earth's mortals. Geb, the earth god, is often shown reclining below her with his phallus elevated to the sky. Nut is the firmament that protects the world from the amorphous chaos beyond and as such maintains all that is in existence. She is mother and protector, associated with the cow, a source of nurture and nourishment, indicating great maternal strength and benign wisdom.

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Nuit in Thelema

Nuit is the Egyptian Goddess of Night, Space, the Heavens and the Stars. In the Book of the Law she says, "I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof" (AL I,22). She is the celestial counterpart to the terrestrial Isis, Isis being the starry sky seen by the eye, and Nuit being that deep vastness of space where the galaxies appear as stars.

"Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu!" (AL II,44). Her stars are souls; "Every man and every woman is a star." (AL I,3). She is Night, Nothingness, Nox. LA = 31 which means "nothing." She is the perpetual darkness in which shines the sun behind the Sun, Sothis, the Star of Set.

She is identified with Ma'at. She is the Lady of the North. She is the Goddess of the Seven Stars. She is Ain. She is Typhon. She is the Mother of All.

She is pure consciousness, truth, death. She is the stellar consciousness which transcends the solar consciousness of Id and Ego. She is the Continuum of Bliss that results from the resolution of mundane existence into the elements on non-existence. She is Nothing [which can be conceived by thought]. She is the Supreme State.

Nuit is Love to Hadit's Will. Nuit is the infinite circumference around the omnipresent point of Hadit. She is the cerebral center to Hadit's kundalini. She is Binah to Hadit's Chokmah. The "black night" of Nuit is the hiding of Hadit. She is the link between Nature (Isis) and the Beyond.

Her magickal formula is "Love under Will." In the Book of the Law she says, "Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will." (AL I,57). 0=2 is her formula. Division is her nature, "I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world..." (AL I,29). She is the source of the [[kala]s and is associated with the black goddess, Kali. The woman-dominant method of sexual congress is a means of kala collection related to her, as is a non-penetrating form of oral sex magick (see the Stele of Revealing). Her number is 11. Her perfume is a "vital, scented fluid." Her incense is of "resinous wood and gums."

She is represented as a dark human female form arched over the Earth, the circumpolar constellation of the Dragon (Polaris, Ursa Major), the eyes of the peacock, the Stellæ Rubæ, the pentgram containing a red circle, the circle, the bow, the colors lapis and black.

In the Book of the Law, the first chapter is attributed to Her.

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