![]() In the 12th Hour of the Book of Gates, Nu is depicted with upraised arms holding a solar bark (or barque, a boat). Naunet is represented as a snake or snake-headed woman. In Ancient Egyptian art, Nun also appears as a bearded man, with blue-green skin, representing water. As with the primordial concepts of the Ogdoad, Nu's male aspect was depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed man. The male aspect, Nun, is written with a male gender ending. Naunet (also spelt Nunet) is the female aspect, which is the name Nu with a female gender ending. Nu was shown usually as male but also had aspects that could be represented as female or male. Nun is otherwise symbolized by the presence of a sacred cistern or lake as in the sanctuaries of Karnak and Dendara. He may appear greeting the rising sun in the guise of a baboon. Nun was also depicted in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a frog, and he was typically depicted in ancient Egyptian art holding aloft the solar barque or the sun disc. Nun was depicted as an anthropomorphic large figure and a personification of the primordial waters, with water ripples filling the body, holding a notched palm branch. The mystical Spell 17, from the Papyrus of Ani. Iconography Nun lifts the solar barque with the new-born sun from the waters of creation. Even so, Nu was sometimes represented by a sacred lake, or, as at Abydos, by an underground stream. Like the other Ogdoad deities, Nu did not have temples or any center of worship. The Ogdoad includes along with Naunet and Nun, Amaunet and Amun Hauhet and Heh and Kauket and Kek. In Heliopolis, the creation was attributed to Atum, a deity closely associated with Ra, who was said to have existed in the waters of Nu as an inert potential being.īeginning with the Middle Kingdom, Nun is described as "the father of the gods" and he is depicted on temple walls throughout the rest of ancient Egyptian religious history. ![]() ![]() There were many versions of the sun's emergence, and it was said to have emerged directly from the mound or from a lotus flower that grew from the mound, in the form of a heron, falcon, scarab beetle, or human child. There was a lotus flower with Benben, and this when it blossomed emerged Ra. The universe was enrapt by a vast mass of primordial waters, and the Benben, a pyramid mound, emerged amid this primal chaos. In some versions of this myth, at the beginning of time Mehet-Weret, portrayed as a cow with a sun disk between her horns, gives birth to the sun, said to have risen from the waters of creation and to have given birth to the sun god Ra in some myths. In the beginning the universe only consisted of a great chaotic cosmic ocean, and the ocean itself was referred to as Nu. Main article: Ancient Egyptian creation myths The name has also been compared to the Coptic noun "abyss deep". The name on Nu is paralleled with nen "inactivity" in a play of words in, "I raised them up from out of the watery mass, out of inactivity ". Nun's consort (or his female aspect) was the goddess Nunut or Naunet ( Ancient Egyptian: nnwt). Nun is also considered the god that will destroy existence and return everything to the Nun whence it came. Nun can be seen as the first of all the gods and the creator of reality and personification of the cosmos. Nu is one of the eight deities of the Ogdoad representing ancient Egyptian primordial Chaos from which the primordial mound arose. Nu ("Watery One") or Nun ("The Inert One") ( Ancient Egyptian: nnw Nānaw Coptic: Ⲛⲟⲩⲛ Noun), in ancient Egyptian religion, is the personification of the primordial watery abyss which existed at the time of creation and from which the creator sun god Ra arose.
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