== 神話 ==
大気として、シューは冷やす、つまり落ち着かせる、影響を与える、なだめ役とされていた。シューは、乾いた空気、穏やかさ、ひいてはマアト<ref>Lazaridis Nikolaos, Ethics, UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 2008, http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000s3mhn|access-date=22 May 2017</ref>(真実、正義、秩序、バランス)を連想させることから、「最初の出来事」の後、大地と空の間の乾いた空気・大気として描かれ、二つの領域を隔てることとなった。(真実、正義、秩序、バランス)を連想させることから、「最初の出来事」の後、大地と空の間の乾いた空気・大気として描かれ、二つの領域を隔てることとなった.<ref>Dunan Francoise, Gods and Men in Egypt, 2004, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, isbn:978-0801488535, page41, https://books.google.com/books?id=2Fe9yVzshx4C, 23 May 2017</ref>。また、シューはダチョウの羽を身につけた姿で美術品に描かれている。
As the air, Shu was considered to be a cooling, and thus calming, influence, and pacifier. Due to the association with dry air, calm, and thus [[Ma'at]] ([[truth]], justice, order, and balance), Shu was depicted as the dry air/atmosphere between the earth and sky, separating the two realms after the event of the First Occasion.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dunan|first1=Francoise|title=Gods and Men in Egypt|date=2004|publisher=[[Cornell University Press]]|location=Ithaca and London|isbn=978-0801488535|page=41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Fe9yVzshx4C|access-date=23 May 2017}}</ref> Shu was also portrayed in art as wearing an [[ostrich]] [[feather]]. Shu was seen with between one and four feathers. The ostrich feather was symbolic of lightness and [[emptiness]]. [[Fog]] and [[cloud]]s were also Shu's elements and they were often called his [[bone]]s. Because of his position between the [[sky]] and [[earth]], he was also known as the [[wind]].<ref name="Egyptian Symbols">{{cite book |last=Owusu|first=Heike|title=Egyptian Symbols|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0bwmQZRTysC&q=shu+egyptian+god&pg=PA99|page=99|publisher=Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.|access-date=6 October 2014|isbn=9781402746239|year=2008}}</ref>
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.