In the ancient Egyptian cosmogony of Hermopolis, Naunet belongs to the → Ogdoad, and is the female counterpart of → Nun, the personification of the primeval deep. In old religious texts Naunet figures as an underworld complement to heaven...

The female deity associated with the primordial watery abyss, the female aspect of the deity, represented as a snake or snake-headed woman. In Egyptian mythology, Nu, is the deification of the primordial watery abyss, in the Ogdoad cosmogony, the name...