Maut (or Mut)
a chief Egyptian goddess, the wife of Amen-Ra, and the second member of the great Theban triad. She was considered as the mother goddess par excellence, or the great receptive female principle; aid she was generally represented as seated upon a throne, wearing either the Pshent, or sacred double crown, or else the body and plumes of a vulture as her head.dress. She was dressed in a long robe, often richly ornamented, and she held in her right hand the usual Crux-ansata, and in her left the papyrus staff of the goddesses. Her chief titles were, "The Mother," "The Lady of Heaven," and "The Regent of all the Gods." The vulture was both her symbol and her sacred bird. Her analogues were in some of her attributes the Hera and Cybele and Thermuthis of the Greeks, and possibly the Bona Dea of the Romans.
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