Kek

Kek is the dark before there was anything to be dark. His epithet is the interesting part: he is called the bringer-in of the light, because the darkness he embodies is the hour before dawn rather than an enemy of dawn — the Ogdoad is not a set of adversaries but a description of the condition out of which the sun first came. The modern internet has attached this god to something else entirely; the record here is the Hermopolitan one.

Domains

• darkness

Relations

• spouse: KauketHis Ogdoad pair.Reference treatment of the Ogdoad, pairing Kek with Kauket. (secondary)

Sources

• Kek is the male half of the Kek pair in the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, personifying the primeval darkness, and carries the epithet 'bringer-in of the light'.: Reference treatments of the Ogdoad and of Kek. (secondary)