The picture below is a composite of the ceiling of one of the small chapels at Edfu temple, which we visited during our drive from Aswan to Luxor.

She’s a little hard to make out, but the oddly shaped woman whose arms run down the left side and whose legs run down the right is the Egyptian goddess of the sky, Nut.

The light blue represents the day sky and the dark blue represents night.  If you look closely at the dark blue, you can see a star pattern on it.

This rather awkward depiction is typical of how the goddess was portrayed.  I think the idea was to show that she completely surrounded the world in some odd, two-dimensional way.

Here are some other examples of how Nut is depicted:

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