The last star of Nut
Egyptian mythology · 8 years and up · 3 min read
Written with AI under the direction of Pierre Filstroff, published
Every night, the Egyptian goddess Nut swallows the sun to keep it safe until morning — but one night, a little star hesitates before disappearing with the others.
In ancient Egypt, it was said that the sky itself was a goddess: Nut, whose vast body arched over the earth from morning to night. Every evening, at the very same hour, Nut swallowed the sun to keep it safe inside her all through the night, before letting it be reborn at the next dawn.
Across her star-covered body, thousands of tiny stars shone, ready to go out one by one the moment the sun returned to drink up the daylight. Every star knew this rule and accepted it without question — every star but one, tiny, who hesitated each evening before disappearing.
A little girl named Nefer, who slept on the roof of her house by the Nile to escape the heat, noticed this hesitant star. "Why do you always wait until last, before you go out?" she asked aloud, sure that no one would answer.
But the star answered, in a shimmer: "I'm afraid morning won't come back, this time. So I stay as long as I can, just to be sure." Nefer smiled and told her: "Nut has swallowed the sun every night since forever, and every morning she gives it back to the world. You can go out in peace: tomorrow, you'll be there to see it return."
Reassured, the little star finally went out with the others, last as always, but never hesitating quite so long again. And ever since that night, Nefer likes to say that she, the little girl from the Nile, is the one who taught the last star in the sky to trust the morning.
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