# Tefnut · moisture · the dew and the rain

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Tefnut:NTR:bbd1db⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *—* · Roman: *—* — moisture personified; the Greeks named no equivalent

**who —** Tefnut, goddess of moisture — Shu's twin and consort, the wet to his dry.
**what —** Dew, rain, and damp; with Shu she forms the first divine pair and the atmosphere of the living world.
**where —** The moisture of the air, at the dawn of the Ennead.
**why —** Because air alone is barren — Tefnut is the moisture that makes the breathable world a living one.
**how —** By being exhaled or spat from Atum alongside Shu, the first differentiation of the All into two.

**the seal —** I am the wet in the world's first breath — paired with the air, I make the difference between a desert and a life.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

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