Kauket
Classification: Primordial Goddess
Culture: Kemet
Kauket is one of the eight primordial deities of the Ogdoad
cosmology.
She is representative of the chaos and darkness of pre
existence of the universe.
She is paired with the god Kek they appear in anthropomorphic form, Kauket
with the head of the snake Kek, with the head of from. Some would argue that
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Nun and his wife
Naunet symbolized the primordial waters
Kuk and Kauket represented darkness.
Huh and Hauhet the eternity of space.
Amun and Amaunet represent invisibility or the hidden.
As cosmic gods they are represented in anthropomorphic form.
They are also sometimes conceived as chthonic animals the male gods appearing
as frogs the female as snakes.
The pair epitomized the primordial darkness. The chaos
existed without the light, and thus Kek and Kauket came to represent this
darkness. They also symbolized obscurity, the kind of obscurity that went with
darkness, and night.
She was depicted greeting the rising sun in the form of a
baboon
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