Egyptian Gods

Tefnut was the Egyptian Goddess of Moisture. The name Tefnut also known as Tefenet or Tefnet whose name means moist waters and it was translated as “She of Moisture”. Tefnut is also known as the goddess of water, rain and fertility.

Tefnut appearance portrayed as a lioness headed woman with the solar disk circled by two cobras on the head and holding scepter in one hand and the ankh in the other. Sometimes, she was shown as full lioness.

Tefnut was the daughter of Ra the creator god. She was the wife and sister of Shu the God of Air. She was also the mother of Geb and Nut the God of Earth and Goddess of Sky. There were a lot of myths about how Tefnut was created.

In the myth, it was said that Tefnut was Eyes of Ra. The Left eye was the moon and the Right one was the sun, both representing light. Thus she was a goddess of sun and dryness, and the moon and moisture. She then gets the name “Lady of Flame”. She was known as the first mother and she was the original deity in the various versions of creation.

The Egyptians believed that without Tefnut (the water) the world could dry up and burn in the sun. But she was not as popular as the other goddess such as Nut, Nephthys or Isis. Her cult center was build at Heliopolis.