The four legs of the celestial cow represented Nut or Hathor could, in one account, be seen as the pillars on which the sky was supported with the stars on their bellies constituting the Milky Way on which the solar barque of Ra, representing the sun, sailed.
Od starega kraljestva je bila imenovana tudi "Gospa iz Sycamore" v svoji vlogi drevesnega božanstva.