Appearance:  Usually represented as a woman wearing a vulture headdress (sometimes surmounted by the double crown of upper and Lower Egypt).  She has also been portrayed with a feline head.

Symbols: Vulture
Principle: Incubation:  
This is "to maintain under favourable conditions for development," to cause development (slowly and without outward or perceptible signs.
Function:    Protection Mut's function is to guarantee immunity from harm, to shield from injury or destruction (while development is taking place).
Energies:  The powers of Mut are concerned with nurturing and protection under 'secretive' or a 'hidden' circumstance until a sustainable stage is reached, whether physical or spiritual.

Myth: In mythology Mut is the divine mother, the name 'Mut" means mother or 'the Great Mother'.  Her name is written with the hieroglyph of a vulture.  It is said to have the same root as the Egyptian word for mother and reveals part of the character in that she is one of the pharaoh's symbolic mothers.

Mut is also a feline goddess (and can be portrayed as either a lioness or a cat).  Her powers are closely related to those of another major goddess; her northern counterpart Sekhmet.  In many representations, the lion is the main manifestation of Mut, when she can become Mut-Bastet.

Pre-eminent goddess of Thebes, Mut is said to be the chief wife of Amun.  At Thebes her tem-ple precinct a quarter of Thebes called Asheru/Isheru and was connected to Annum's sanctu-ary by a processional road through the series of pylons leading to the south.  She appears on temple walls enthroned beside Amun or as 'mistress of the nine bows.'  This is the sign that would later be represented as the 'archer.'   Mut is nature itself; she exemplifies its capacity to recycle.  Her main symbol is the vulture.  Just as vultures eat carrion and turn it into life, so too the goddess take in death and brings forth new life for the spiritual aspirant.  Also the vulture is a bird with the largest wings span (in Egypt) and so became symbols of maternal love and protection.  She is one of the few deities who were self created.  She was known as "Mut, who gives birth, but was herself not born of any."

The worship of this goddess in human form, shown wearing a vulture headdress and the Double Crown, was/became directly dependant on the worship of Amun.  From the New Kingdom onward she, Amun and their son Khonso formed the Theban divine triad, and her maternal role is indicated by her name.   Amun and Mut were also regarded as the king's parents from the 18th dynasty onward.  As lady of Asheru she had a cult of her own at Karnak with a crescent shaped lake, and was depicted there in the form of a lion. She was closely associated with other vulture or lion goddess such as Nekhet, Uto/Wadjyt, Sakhmet and Bastet.


Khonsu
Mut       Amun
The Dendara Triad


Personality Traits
Mut is concerned with philosophy, idealism and spiritual growth as well as generosity, honesty, justice and morality and the teachings of these.

Inspiring
Can adapt to any situation
Lively
Affectionate/sensitive
Impetuous/rash

Body parts:    Thighs [functional/metaphysical = Muscular/purgation]


Other Correspondences:
Neter                         Mut
Season                      Inundation / Aket
Month                        Mesora / December
Planet                        Jupiter / Venus
Element                     Fire
Body part                   Thighs, Hips
Gemstone                  Topaz, Amethyst, Lapis Lazuli
Tree                           Ash / Sandalwood
Food                          White grapes
Flower                        Hyacinth
Colour(s)                    Lilac, purple, Yellow
Number(s)                 10
Incense/Perfume        Rose
Metal                         Tin
12 Tribes of Israel       Gad

Suitable Occupations        Anything involving travel and knowl-edge of foreign languages,

                                                              any kind of work with animals, teacher, nurse.