Mut (Maut, Mwt) was the mother goddess of Thebes. The ancient Egyptians considered the vulture to be a protecting and nurturing mother, and so their word for mother was also the word for a vulture, “Mwt”. Mut, which means mother in ancient Egyptian, was an ancient Egyptian mother goddess with many aspects changing over thousands of years in culture.
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