Nun

Primeval limitless waters of chaos preceding all creation.

Children

• Atum
• Khnum
• Neith
• Ra

Domains

• primeval waters
• primordial chaos

Powers

• Existence as the boundless precreation abyss
• Raising the newborn sun into the sky at the First Time
• Raising the solar barque from the abyss

Epithets

• jt-nṯrw Egyptian · it-netjeru · primordialfather of the godsLeitz, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, s.v. Nun (secondary)

Relations

• ancestor of: RaPrimeval waters from which the demiurge arises; Ra, Atum, Khnum and Neith already record Nun as parent, so given as ancestor-of to preserve their deity tier. Consort Naunet not registered.Coffin Texts / Book of the Dead (the sun-god Ra/Atum emerges from the primeval waters of Nun); Heliopolitan cosmogony (primary)

Sources

• existence: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 600 (primary)