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Shu has a minion!

Su the Hummer

Shu

The

Steamwork Fester
Owner: Sekhmet

Age: 5 years, 9 months, 6 days

Built: August 12th, 2020

Adopted: 5 years, 9 months, 6 days ago

Adopted: August 12th, 2020

Statistics

Level: 16
Strength: 35
Defense: 10
Speed: 10
Health: 10
HP: 10/10
Intelligence: 104
Books Read: 76
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Rehabilitator

The god of the wind and the atmosphere, Shu was also related to the sun, possibly as an aspect of sunlight. The Pyramid Texts suggest that the clouds are Shu’s bones. The air itself was referred to as the “House of Shu” – mists were the “Lakes of Shu.”

He was called to “lift up” the spirits of the dead so that they might rise up to heaven. Shu was credited with powers that renewed the cosmos, as the god who filled the universe with the very breath of life. As a god of the wind, sailors invoked Shu to provide the good wind to power their boats.

It was said that the siblings Shu and Tefnut were two parts of one soul. Shu was supposed to carry away hunger from the deceased, and Tefnut his thirst. In the Pyramid Texts Shu was closely involved in judging of the heart of the deceased: "Tefnut has weighed the heart and Ma’at has listened, and Shu has born witness."

Shu was thought to be the brother-husband of Tefnut, and the father of Nut and Geb. Occasionally Shu’s wife was thought to be Heket, and his mother Neith.

Credits

❖ Story by Sekhmet with information from these sources
❖ Background photo from Hasmik Ghazaryan Olson
❖ Profile by Balloon