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Nuit

Deity in Thelema

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Nuit is a goddess in Thelema, a Western esoteric quasi-religion. Nuit is the speaker in the first chapter of The Book of the Law, the sacred text written or received in 1904 by Aleister Crowley. Nuit is based on the Ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut, who in Egyptian mythology arches over her brother/husband, Geb. She is usually depicted as a naked woman who is covered with stars.

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“Nuit” enters the record as deity in Thelema. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nuit, Deity and Thelema can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nuit, Deity and Thelema.
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“Nuit” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nuit, Deity and Thelema provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1904.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nuit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.