relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 1564,ENT_EGY_ATUM,parent_of,ENT_EGY_SHU,high,"Pyramid Texts Utterance 600: Atum spat out Shu (""who spat out Shu, who expectorated Tefnut"") from Heliopolis. Also PT 527, 1248 describe Atum creating Shu and Tefnut by masturbation (the ""hand of Atum"" tradition). Atum as the creator of the first divine pair Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture) is the foundational act of the Heliopolitan cosmogony and the root of the Ennead genealogy.",SRC_FAULKNER_PYRAMID_TEXTS,reviewed,PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM 2269,ENT_EGY_ANHUR,identified_with,ENT_EGY_SHU,high,"By the New Kingdom Anhur was theologically compounded with Shu (the air deity who upholds the sky), worshipped as Anhur-Shu at Sebennytos and Thinis. Both share the role of separating heaven from earth. Wilkinson (2003) pp. 106-107.",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed, 2362,ENT_MER_ARENSNUPHIS,aligned_with,ENT_EGY_SHU,medium,"Through the Onuris-Shu theological identification in late Egyptian religion (Anhur/Onuris was regularly equated with Shu as the air deity who holds up the sky), Arensnuphis inherits a secondary alignment with Shu. The chain is: Arensnuphis syncretized_with Anhur, and Anhur identified_with Shu in Egyptian theology. Confidence medium: the alignment is indirect (mediated through the Onuris-Shu equation) rather than a direct ancient statement about Arensnuphis and Shu. Török (1997) p. 477.",SRC_TÖRÖK_MEROE,reviewed,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC