Kauket
Egyptian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Kauket brings in the night as Kek brings in the light, which between them makes the pair a complete day rather than an unrelieved dark. It is a neat piece of theology: the quality that precedes creation is not abolished by creation but redistributed into its rhythm, so that the darkness before the first morning becomes the darkness of every evening after.
Domains
- darkness
Relations
- spouse: KekHer Ogdoad pair.Reference treatment of the Ogdoad, pairing Kauket with Kek. (secondary)
Sources
- Kauket is the female half of the Kek pair in the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, personifying the primeval darkness.: Reference treatment of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis. (secondary)