Introduction
Naunet is the female half of the primeval water-pair with Nun, one of the four complementary couples of the Ogdoad worshipped at Hermopolis as the forces present before creation.
Family
- Spouse: Nun (married)
Consort of the Waters
Like the other Ogdoad goddesses, Naunet is largely a grammatical and theological counterpart to her male partner, embodying the same concept — here, the primeval waters — in feminine form. The Ogdoad's eight deities were paired as male-female reflections of four qualities (water, infinity, darkness, hiddenness) understood to have preceded and enabled the emergence of the created world.
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.