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Usage examples of shu.

The part played by the god, and the nature of the link connecting him with Shu, have been explained by Maspero.

It was from Shu that the Greeks derived their representations, and perhaps their myth of Atlas.

On the day of creation a new god, Shu, came forth from the primaeval waters, slipped between the two, and seizing Nuit with both hands, lifted her above his head with outstretched arms.

Sibu had not been satisfied to meet the irruption of Shu by mere passive resistance.

After he had been identified with the sun, the similar identification of Shu inevitably followed.

The violence suffered by Nuit at the hands of Shu led to a connexion of the Osirian dogma of Mendes with the solar dogma of Sebennytos, and thus the tradition describing the creation of the world was completed by another, explaining its division into deserts and fertile lands.

As Atumu-Ra could have no fellow, he stood apart in the first rank, and it was decided that Shu should be his son, whom he had formed out of himself alone, on the first day of creation, by the simple intensity of his own virile energy.

Nomes which worshipped a goddess had no scruples whatever in ascribing to her the part played by Atumu, and in crediting her with the spontaneous maternity of Shu and Tafnuit.

Thus, the Theban Ennead of Amon-Maut-Khonsu, Shu, Tafnuit, Sibu, Nuit, Osiris, Isis, Sit, and Nephthys, is, in spite of its apparent irregularity, as correct as the typical Ennead itself.

Thus we find that Horus the son of Isis at Buto, Arihosnofir the son of Nit at Sais, Khnumu the son of Hathor at Esneh, were each in turn identified with Shu the son of Aturnu, and lost their individualities in his.

It having been finally admitted in the sacerdotal colleges that Tumu and Shu, father and son, were one, all the divine sons were, therefore, identical with Tumu, the father of Shu, and as each divine son was one with his parents, it inevitably followed that these parents themselves were identical with Tumu.

The legend of Shu and Sibil--The reign of Osiris Onnophris and of Isis: they civilize Egypt and the world--Osiris, slain by Sit, is entombed by Isis and avenged by Horus--The wars of Typhon and of Horus: peace, and the division of Egypt between the two gods.

Ra, Shu, Osiris, Sit, Horus--Thot, and the invention of sciences and writing--Menes, and the three first human dynasties.

The latter were born from another part of his body by the same means as those employed by Atumu in the creation of Shu and Tafnuit.

Their defeat at Hermopolis corresponded to the moment when Shu, raising the sky above the sacred mound in that city, substituted order and light for chaos and darkness.