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Idunna Idunna is the keeper of the apples of youth, which keep the Gods young and strong. Once, when Idunna was snatched by Loki, the gods' beauty began to fade rapidly. After holding a meeting to discuss her disappearance, they discover that she was last seen with Loki, and they go after him. Loki then changed the goddess and her apples into a nut and flew away with them. Idunna is the embodiment of the strength and vitality of youth, that which keeps the worlds strong and fruitful. Her very name means "the renewing one".
Both apples and nuts are signs, not merely of fruitfulness, but specifically of life springing forth again from death.
Maat Maat was a teenage girl goddess who was often represented as a pair of twins. She was Truth and Order, Harmony and equilibrium, justice and supreme balance; the concept that the universe, above everything else is an ordered and rational place. Her domain encompasses predictability and regularity - constants. She is - paradoxically - the Goddess of Science, as well as integrity and honor.
She stands at the entrance to the material plane. At the time of one's death, she will place their heart on her scales and weight it against a feather. If they balance, then that person may pass on to the afterlife in peace. If not, it means that the heart is heavy with evil, and the soul is devoured by the monstrous goddess Ahemait.
Nut Nut (Nuit/Nuet) (pronounced Noot) was an Egyptian Sky-Goddess, separated from her consort and brother (Geb) by Ra. She is usually shown as a woman with a long, star-spangled body touching the earth with her fingers and toes, her back making an arch in the sky. The Sun god would travel up her legs each day, across her back and is then swallowed in her mouth, to be reborn the next day. This led to her being associated with resurrection, and the world of the dead. She was believed to watch over the deceased, and her image has been found painted on the inside lid of Egyptian Sarcophagi. She is often referred to as The Sow who eats up her piglets, in that she subsumes all the heavenly bodies in her own being.
When seen in human form, she is seen wearing a vase upon her head.
