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In Egyptian mythology, Nuit was the sky
goddess, in contrast to most other mythologies, where the
Sky Father is nearly always male. Nuit is a daughter of Shu
and Tefnut. She was one of the Ennead. The sun god Ra entered
her mouth after the sun set in the evening and was reborn
from her vulva the next morning. She also swallowed and rebirthed
the stars.
She was a goddess of death, and her image is on the inside of most sarcophagi. The pharaoh entered
her body after death and was later resurrected.
In art, Nuit is depicted as a woman wearing no clothes,
covered with stars and supported by Shu;
opposite her (the sky), is her husband, Seb (the
Earth). With Seb, she was the mother of Osiris, Horus, Isis, Set,
and Nephthys.
Alternatives: Nu, Nut
Hadit, "the great god, the lord of
the sky," is depicted on the Stele
of Revealing in the form of the winged
disk of the Sun.
Hadit is the principal speaker of the second chapter of
the Book of the Law, where he identifies himself
as the point in the center of the circle, the axle of the
wheel, the cube in the circle, "the flame that burns in every heart
of man, and in the core of every star," and the worshipper's
own self. Hadit has been interpreted as the inner spirit
of man, the Holy Ghost, the sperm in which the DNA of man
is carried, the Elixir Vitae. When juxtaposed with Nuit in
Liber Legis Hadit represents each unique point-experience.
These point-experiences in aggregate comprise the sum of
all possible experience, Nuit.
Thelema
Nuit is the main speaker in the first chapter of the Book
of the Law and the feminine compliment to the deity
Hadit. Nuit is the infinitely vast circle whose circumference
is unmeasurable and whose center is everywhere. Hadit is
the infinitely small point within the core of every single
thing. The union of the two is yet another glyph of the
Great Work.
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