Which goddess was the personification of the sky? Nut was the ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the sky, stars, and the cosmos.
Egyptian art often presents Nut as a star-covered woman arching over the earth. Her body formed the heavens while her husband and brother, Geb, represented the earth below. Shu, the god of air, separated the pair, creating the space in which the ordered world could exist.
Nut was the daughter of Shu and Tefnut and the mother of Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys. In some later traditions, Horus the Elder was also counted among her children. Egyptian religious texts described her as swallowing the sun at night and giving birth to it again at dawn, turning the daily solar journey into a cycle of death and renewal.
A frequent mix-up is reversing Nut and Geb. Unlike many mythologies with a sky father and earth mother, Egyptian tradition made the sky female and the earth male. Nut could also appear as a celestial cow, a sycamore tree, or a sow whose piglets represented stars.