entities: ENT_EGY_NAUNET

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_EGY_NAUNET Naunet   Egyptian Primordial goddess Primordial Deity primordial waters; chaos; creation   Hermopolitan   A candidate_verified_name Egyptian primordial deity 2 0 0 Naunet (also Naunet, Nenet) is the female counterpart of Nun in the Hermopolis Ogdoad — the personification of the counter-heaven or the sky that corresponds to the primordial watery abyss below. In Egyptian cosmological thought, the universe is bounded above by a celestial counterpart to Nun's waters, and Naunet personifies this upper water-boundary. As a pair, Nun and Naunet represent the totality of the primordial undifferentiated water — below and above, the boundless abyss in all directions — before the moment of creation. Like all female members of the Ogdoad, Naunet is depicted with a serpent's head rather than a human head (while the male members have frog heads), a convention that expresses their connection to the primordial, pre-creation state. Naunet's role is almost entirely cosmological; she appears primarily in texts describing the Ogdoad's primordial state rather than in narratives involving her individually. The Coffin Texts attest to the Ogdoad's role in "breathing life into the two Lands" upon the first sunrise, with Naunet part of the generative watery principle. Wilkinson (2003) pp. 100-101. deity

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