Ra, god of the sun and ruler of the cosmos, was jealous of them and ordered the god of the wind to separate them: Shu lifted Nut’s body and arched it over Geb’s, making room for the world.

Not only that, but every evening the goddess Nut swallowed the sun and gave birth to it the next morning, in an eternal cycle of death and rebirth.

The god Ra was reborn into the world after traveling through the night in Nut’s womb.

Because of this strong symbolic meaning of rebirth, Nut is depicted on the ceilings of the sarcophagus chamber, where inscriptions such as these can be read: “I place you in me, I give birth to you a second time, so that you may enter and leave under the imperishable stars, and be chosen, alive and rejuvenated, day after day, as the sun god.

Nut is therefore a mother goddess who protects and guards, who welcomes and makes room to create the world, and who gives life back in an eternal cycle.