『死者の書』には、アトゥムがシューを鼻からくしゃみで吐き出したり、テフヌトを唾液のように吐き出したりする描写がある。ブレムナー・リンド・パピルスとメンフィス神話は、アトゥムが唾液をくしゃみして双子を形成したと記述している<ref name="Pinch">Pinch, Geraldine, Geraldine Pinch, Handbook of Egyptian Mythology, https://books.google.com/books?id=N-mTqRTrimgC&pg=PA63, 2002, ABC-CLIO, isbn:978-1-57607-242-4, page63</ref>。
==Iconographyイコノグラフィー ==
Tefnut is a leonine deity, and appears as human with a lioness head when depicted as part of the Great [[Ennead]] of Heliopolis. The other frequent depiction is as a lioness, but Tefnut can also be depicted as fully human. In her fully or semi anthropomorphic form, she is depicted wearing a wig, topped either with a [[uraeus]] serpent, or a uraeus and solar disk, and she is sometimes depicted as a lion headed serpent. Her face is sometimes used in a double headed form with that of her brother Shu on collar counterpoises.<ref name="Wilkinson">{{cite book|last=Wilkinson|first=Richard H|title=The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt|year=2003|publisher=[[Thames & Hudson]]|isbn=0-500-05120-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/completegodsgodd00wilk_0/page/183 183]|url=https://archive.org/details/completegodsgodd00wilk_0/page/183}}</ref>