Name:
Naunet
Known
Aliases: the Mother of all Mothers
Associated: The Primeval waters of Chaos
Pantheon: Egyptian
Gender: Female
Literature:
Pyramid Text
Classification:
Primordial God
Element:
Water
Crystal:
Occupation:
Creator
Known
Affiliations The Ogdoad, Nun
Naunet is the one of the
eight ancient deities of Ogdoad theology in Hermopolis. She is the consort of
Nun and represented chaos and the primeval waters to which everything have
sprouted from nothingness. Like her three sisters Kauket, Amaunet and Hauhet,
she was represented as a woman with the head of a snake, mostly that of a
cobra. Her name may also be spelled as Nunet.
. She guards the twelve
veils of negation believed to be the flaws of the original creation. Access to
these cracks would lead to the void that was Nun. She embodies the primal womb
– where cycles of life, death and rebirth continues for all creatures and
beings. She is depicted as the one who have freed all creations to pursue their
individual life cycles making her “the Mother of all
Mothers
She was rarely described as
a personified deity, and is not often mentioned without her partner Nun although
she is sometimes described as the mother of the sun god along with the
composite deity Nun-Ptah.
In the old religious text
she is the underworld equivalent to heaven which the sun traverse during the
night.
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