Introduction
Kauket is the female half of the darkness-pair with Kek, one of the eight primeval Hermopolitan deities preceding creation.
Family
- Spouse: Kek (married)
Consort of Darkness
Kauket's role, like her male counterpart's, is chiefly conceptual: representing the darkness of the uncreated world alongside the other three pairs of the Ogdoad — water, infinity, and hiddenness — whose union at Hermopolis was said to have produced the egg or lotus from which the sun first rose.
Ancient Egyptian religion spanned three millennia and many regional cult centers, so parentage, roles and even gender pairings for a given deity often differ between the Heliopolitan, Hermopolitan, Memphite and Theban theological systems; the account above follows the most widely attested classical version.