Tefnout (or Tphenis), goddess of the Egyptian Mythology, belonged to large the Ennéade of Héliopolis.

It was born, just like her twin brother - who will be also her husband Chou (or Shou) - seed of Atoum, the creator. Tefnout and Chou form the first divine couple thus. Tefnout is the symbol of moisture and Chou that of the air; they represent with their two children, Geb (ground) and Nout (sky), the four paramount elements.

Tefnout, which one also associated with the rain, the dew and the clouds, was the symbol of water and its creative capacity. It incarnates the humid air (that is to say change of the elements) in complement of her husband who incarnates the dry air to him (or conservation).

It was honoured with Oxyrhynque and one represented it in the shape of a woman with head of lioness with a solar disk on the head or of a lioness. With Léontopolis, Cabbage and Tefnout are venerated in the shape of a couple of lions.

Tefnout is also the personification of the goddess Lointaine. It then takes the aspect and the attributes of the dangerous goddesses and incarnates then the eye of Re, the cycle of the sun burning and devastator.

According to the myth, Remote the, girl of the sun, flees in the desert of Nubie where it leaves free court to her ferocity. Her husband Cabbage and Thot is charged by Re bringing back it with, which they did after having enivrée it of wine. Alleviated, Remote the found its beneficial aspect, the Inondation, and returned in Egypt.

Simple: Tefnut