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Tefnut, the Glossary

Tefnut (.; ⲧϥⲏⲛⲉ) is a deity of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Egyptian religion.^[1]

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Akhenaten

Akhenaten (pronounced), also spelled Akhenaton or Echnaton (ꜣḫ-n-jtn ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy,, meaning 'Effective for the Aten'), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Ancient Egyptian religion

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals that formed an integral part of ancient Egyptian culture.

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Anhur

In early Egyptian mythology, Anhur (also spelled Onuris, Onouris, An-Her, Anhuret, Han-Her, Inhert) was a god of war who was worshipped in the Egyptian area of Abydos, and particularly in Thinis.

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Archaeopress

Archaeopress is an academic publisher specialising in archaeology, based in Oxford.

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Aten

Aten, also Aton, Atonu, or Itn (jtn, reconstructed) was the focus of Atenism, the religious system formally established in ancient Egypt by the late Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten.

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Atum

Atum (Egyptian: jtm(w) or tm(w), reconstructed; Coptic Atoum), sometimes rendered as Atem or Tem, is the primordial God in Egyptian mythology from whom all else arose. Tefnut and Atum are Personifications.

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Bastet

Bastet or Bast (bꜣstjt, Oubaste, Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤎𐤕, romanized: ’bst, or 𐤁𐤎𐤕, romanized: bst) is a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion possibly of Nubian origin, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BC). Tefnut and Bastet are Egyptian goddesses, fertility goddesses and lion goddesses.

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Coffin Texts

The Coffin Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary spells written on coffins beginning in the First Intermediate Period.

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Determinative

A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation.

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Dew

Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation.

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Ennead

The Ennead or Great Ennead was a group of nine deities in Egyptian mythology worshipped at Heliopolis: the sun god Atum; his children Shu and Tefnut; their children Geb and Nut; and their children Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.

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Eye of Ra

The Eye of Ra or Eye of Re, usually depicted as sun disk or right wedjat-eye (paired with the Eye of Horus, left wedjat-eye), is an entity in ancient Egyptian mythology that functions as an extension of the sun god Ra's power, equated with the disk of the sun, but it often behaves as an independent goddess, a feminine counterpart to Ra and a violent force that subdues his enemies. Tefnut and Eye of Ra are Egyptian goddesses.

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Geb

Geb (gbb, Egyptological pronunciation: Gebeb), also known as Ceb, was the Egyptian god of the Earth and a mythological member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. Tefnut and Geb are Personifications.

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Harpocrates

Harpocrates (Ἁρποκράτης, Phoenician: 𐤇𐤓𐤐𐤊𐤓𐤈, romanized: ḥrpkrṭ, harpokrates) was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch).

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Hathor

Hathor (lit, Ἁθώρ, ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Meroitic) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles. Tefnut and Hathor are animal goddesses, Egyptian goddesses and lion goddesses.

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Heliopolis (ancient Egypt)

Heliopolis (Jwnw, Iunu; jwnw, 'the Pillars'; ⲱⲛ; City of the Sun) was a major city of ancient Egypt.

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Horus

Horus, also known as Hor, in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky.

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Ideogram

An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.

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Isis

Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Tefnut and Isis are Egyptian goddesses and fertility goddesses.

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Joyce Tyldesley

Joyce Ann Tyldesley (born 25 February 1960) is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic, writer and broadcaster who specialises in the women of ancient Egypt.

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Karnak

The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak, comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt.

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Leontopolis

Leontopolis was an ancient Egyptian city located in the Nile Delta, Lower Egypt.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.

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Maat

Maat or Maʽat (Egyptian: ''mꜣꜥt'' /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ) comprised the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Tefnut and Maat are Egyptian goddesses and Personifications.

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Mafdet

Mafdet (also Mefdet, Maftet) was a goddess in the ancient Egyptian religion. Tefnut and Mafdet are Egyptian goddesses.

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Moisture

Moisture is the presence of a liquid, especially water, often in trace amounts.

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Nefertiti

Nefertiti was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

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Nephthys

Nephthys or Nebet-Het in ancient Egyptian (Νέφθυς) was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion.

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Nile Delta

The Nile Delta (دلتا النيل, or simply الدلتا) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Nubia

Nubia (Nobiin: Nobīn) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or more strictly, Al Dabbah.

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Nut (goddess)

Nut (Nwt, Ⲛⲉ), also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient Egyptian religion. Tefnut and Nut (goddess) are Egyptian goddesses and Personifications.

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Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Osiris

Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

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Parthenogenesis

Parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθένος|translit.

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Phonogram (linguistics)

A phonogram is a grapheme i.e. one or more written characters which represent a phoneme (speech sound), rather than a bigger linguistic unit such as morphemes or words.

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Pyramid Texts

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom.

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Ra

Ra (rꜥ; also transliterated,; cuneiform: ri-a or ri-ia; Phoenician: 𐤓𐤏,CIS I 3778 romanized: rʿ) or Re (translit) was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun. Tefnut and ra are Personifications.

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Rain

Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.

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Satis (goddess)

Satet, Satit or Satjet, Satjit in Ancient Egyptian (Sṯt or Sṯı͗t,."Pourer" or "Shooter"), Greek: Satis, also known by numerous related names, was an Upper Egyptian goddess who, along with Khnum and Anuket, formed part of the Elephantine Triad. Tefnut and Satis (goddess) are Egyptian goddesses and fertility goddesses.

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Sekhmet

In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet (or Sachmis, from 𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐|translit. Tefnut and Sekhmet are animal goddesses, Egyptian goddesses and lion goddesses.

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Set (deity)

Set (Egyptological: Sutekh - swtẖ ~ stẖ or: Seth) is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion.

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Shabaka Stone

The Shabaka Stone, sometimes Shabaqo, is a relic incised with an ancient Egyptian religious text, which dates from the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.

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Shu (Egyptian god)

Shu (Egyptian šw, "emptiness" or "he who rises up") was one of the primordial Egyptian gods, spouse and brother to the goddess Tefnut, and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony. Tefnut and Shu (Egyptian god) are Personifications.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefnut

Also known as Tefenet, Tefent, Tefnet, Tphenis.

Tefnut, the Glossary

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Lion goddesses

Rain deities

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