The gods of ancient Egypt supervised almost every aspect of existence, with gods and goddesses who represent everyday daily activities to the cosmos itself. But the heavenly goddes-note (pronounced as “note”) had one of the most important roles. Noot literally stood over her earth God brother, born, who protected him against the flood water of the emptiness. She was also crucial for the solar cycle and swallowed the sun in the twilight to return it every morning. According to evolving research from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, use may also have had another important association: with the Melkweg itself. His latest theories were laid down in a study published on April 30 in the Journal of Astronomical History Heritage.
Astrophysicist Or Graur Was interested for the first time in the origin of utility, while he carried out research for one Book about galaxies. When exploring the milky way of different cultures, Graur was hit by ancient Egyptian written sources that referred to the Melkweg, such as the Pyramid texts” Box textsand the Book with note. After comparing their descriptions with simulations of what the Egyptian night sky looked like during those eras, Graur published a first study In 2024, making nuts and the Melkweg were intertwined – perhaps even physically. In particular, he claimed that the winter sky manifested itself in the vast arms of deity, while her backbone showed the summer heaven.
The next year, Graur spent deeper into the theory and revised 125 images of notes depicted over 555 Egyptian coffins from almost 5000 years ago. Although often illustrated as a naked woman held in stars, certain examples stood out for their differences.
“The lyrics in themselves suggested a way to think about the link between note and the Milky Way,” Said Graur. “Analyzing her visual images on coffins and burial wall paintings added a new dimension that, literally literally, painted a different image.”
A box of the Amun-Re-Chantress Nesitaudjatakhet, for example, shows a wavy black curve that crosses the body of her fingertips, with a relatively equal number of stars on either side of the curve. Graur believes that this arch is meant to represent the Melkweg.
“I think the wavy curve … can be a representation of the big gorge – the dark dust band that cuts [through the] The clear diffuse light from Milky Way, “he said.
Graur also pointed to similar curves that were seen in four graves in the valley of the kings, including those of Ramesses VI. He ruled from the middle to the late 12th century BC. And his burial plate ceiling is halved between the book of the day and the book of the Night. Both images include back-to-back, curved figures of nut separated by gold curves that hang out of her head, all the way along her back. However, this specific curvature variation was rare in Graur’s Nut Artwork Survey, which he says it strengthens the larger theory.
“Although there is a connection between the note and the Milky Way, the two are not one and the same,” he said. “Note is not a representation of the Melkweg. Instead, the Melkweg, together with the sun and the stars, is still a heavenly phenomenon that can decorate the body of note in its role as heaven.”
The new hypothesis goes further than giving a more nuanced look at Egyptian Pantheon – it is a great material for going to bed.
‘My interest [in Nut] Was awakened after a visit to a museum with my daughters, where they were enchanted by the image of a curved woman and kept asking to hear stories about her, “said Graur.
