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| Title | Lunar Goddess of Moisture |
| Cult Center | Heliopolis |
| Gender | Female |
| Father | Ra The King of gods |
| Consort | Brother Shu the air god |
| Sons and Daughters | Geb the earth god
Nut, the goddess of the sky |
| Patron - Dominion | water - moisture - clouds |
| Dedicated temples | No temples are known |
| 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 |
Ra created her and brother Shu from the semen which resulted from his primordial act of masturbation,
Tefnut and Shu started duality and the sexual cycle began in the universe,
She looks like Sekhmet, however, Tefnut's ears are routinely pointed, whereas Sekhmet's are rounded
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