Tefnut

	Title	Lunar Goddess of Moisture
	Cult Center	Heliopolis
	Gender	Female
	Father	Ra The King of gods
	Consort	Brother Shu
	Sons and Daughters	Geb Nut
	Patron - Dominion	water - moisture - clouds
	Dedicated temples	Cosmic deity with no dedicated temples
	Appearance	- A woman who wears on her head the solar disk circled by two cobras. She holds in her hands the sceptre and ankh - Head of a lioness - A full lioness
	Historical Developments	In Egyptian mythology Ra created Tefnut and her and brother Shu from semen, which resulted from his primordial act of masturbation - Egyptians believed that without her water, Egypt could dry and burn in the sun. - According to the Pyramid Texts, she created pure water from her vagina - Tefnut and Shu the air god, started duality and the sexual cycle began in the universe - Tefnut was the first female to have sex, and the first mother giving birth to Geb the earth god, and Nut the goddess of the sky - Together the four members of this cosmic family, made up the quartet of major elements of the universe: earth, air, sky and water - She looks like Sekhmet, however, Tefnut's ears are routinely pointed, whereas Sekhmet's are rounded

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