Mut
A primordial
Egyptian goddess, patroness of the city of Thebes, where
she was worshipped as a vulture.
At
Thebes she replaced Amaunet as
the consort of Amun. With Amun and
her adopted son, the moon-god Chons,
she forms a powerful triad. They were worshipped in the
large Amun temple in Luxor.
Mut,
whose name means "mother", was also a sky goddess and 'mother
of the mothers', from whom everything originates. In an
annual marital ceremony, Amun came from his temple in Karnak
to Luxor to visit her.
She
was portrayed as a vulture, or as a woman with the head
of a vulture, dressed in a bright red or blue dress. At
Thebes, Mut was syncretized with the goddess Sakhmet.
The
name of Mut in hieroglyphs: 
The
Encyclopedia Mythica
