Egyptian song to the Sky Goddess

Before you were born, when you were a spirit,

Nut, sky goddess,

Dark body with its mighty heart,

you grew strong in the belly of your mother Tefnut.

Somewhere within you, even then, was perfect knowledge of your selfhood.

Somehow you recognised your perfect name.

You stirred in your mother's womb when that name was spoken,

Nut, daughter more powerful than your powerful mother,

Nut, great goddess who became the sky, the arching sky,

Nut, goddess so beautiful your beauty fills the earth

which you embrace with your powerful arms,

which you hold like a mother,

like a queen,

like a woman in love.