Naunet

Naunet is the abyss in the feminine. The Ogdoad works by naming four qualities of the pre-creation state — water, darkness, endlessness, hiddenness — and giving each a male and a female holder, which is a way of saying that the condition was total rather than partial. The Egyptians did not think the primeval water went away at creation: it is still there, outside and underneath, and the sun has to be reborn out of it every morning. The registry had Nun with 'Nunet' filed as an alias, which is exactly the move this record undoes.

Domains

• primordial waters

Relations

• counterpart of: NunNun's Ogdoad pair. The registry's Nun record already lists 'Nunet (fem.)' among its aliases; she is given her own record anyway, because a system of four pairs cannot be recorded as four males with footnotes.Reference treatment of the Ogdoad, pairing Nun with Naunet. (secondary)

Sources

• Naunet is the female half of the Nun pair in the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, personifying the primeval ocean.: Reference treatments of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis and of its four pairs. (secondary)