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In a much later myth, representing a terrible weather disaster at the end of the [[Old Kingdom]], it was said that [[Tefnut]] and Shu once argued, and Tefnut left [[Egypt]] for [[Nubia]] (which was always more temperate). It was said that Shu quickly decided that he missed her, but she changed into a cat that destroyed any man or god that approached. [[Thoth]], disguised, eventually succeeded in convincing her to return.
The [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] associated Shu with [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]], the primordial [[Titan (mythology)|Titan]] who held up the [[celestial spheres]], as they are both depicted holding up the [[sky]].<ref name="A-Z">{{cite book |last=Remler|first=Pat|title=''Egyptian Mythology, A to Z''|publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLUjtPDyu-IC|page=24|year=2010|access-date=6 October 2014|isbn=9781438131801}}</ref>
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古王国時代末期の天候不順の神話では、[[テフヌト]]とシューが口論になり、[[テフヌト]]はエジプトからヌビア（もともと温暖な国）に向かったと言われている。シューはすぐに[[テフヌト]]に「会いたい」と思ったが、彼女は近づく人間や神を滅ぼす猫に変わってしまったという。トートは変装して、彼女を説得することに成功した。
ギリシャでは、シューは天球を支える原初のティターンであるアトラースと結びつけられ、両者は天を支える姿で描かれている<ref name="A-Z">Remler Pat, ''Egyptian Mythology, A to Z'', Infobase Publishing, https://books.google.com/books?id=wLUjtPDyu-IC, page24, 2010, 6 October 2014, isbn:9781438131801</ref>。
According to the Heliopolitan cosmology, Shu and [[Tefnut]], the first pair of cosmic elements, created the [[sky goddess]], [[Nut (goddess)|Nut]], and the [[earth god]], [[Geb]]. Shu separated Nut from Geb as they were in the act of love, creating duality in the manifest world: above and below, light and dark, [[good and evil]]. Prior to their separation, however, Nut had given birth to the gods [[Isis]], [[Osiris]], [[Nephthys]] (Horus) and [[Set (Egyptian religion)|Set]].<ref name="Egyptian Symbols" /> The Egyptians believed that if Shu did not hold [[Nut (goddess)|Nut]] (sky) and [[Geb]] (earth) apart there would be no way for physically-manifest life to exist.
