The Egyptian sky goddess often depicted as a woman arched over the earth was Nut.
Nut personified the sky, stars, and heavens in ancient Egyptian religion. Artists commonly showed her as a long, star-covered woman bending over the earth, with her hands and feet touching the ground. In this cosmic arrangement, her brother and husband Geb represented the earth beneath her, while Shu, the god of air, separated them.
Nut belonged to the Heliopolitan creation tradition and was said to be the daughter of Shu and Tefnut. With Geb, she became the mother of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. A later tradition also included Horus the Elder among her children. Egyptian mythology described the sun and stars as traveling across her body, disappearing into her at night and being reborn at dawn.
Nut was also an important protector of the dead. Her starry body appeared on coffin lids and tomb ceilings, symbolically sheltering the deceased and promising renewal. She is sometimes confused with Hathor, who could also take celestial or cow forms, but Nut’s defining role is the personification of the sky itself.