Back ككوي Arabic Kek (mifologiya) Azerbaijani কেক (পুরাণ) Bengali/Bangla Kek (mitologia) Catalan Kek CDO Kuk Czech Kek German Κουκ Greek Kuk (mitología) Spanish Kuk Basque
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Kek
Kekuit
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| Major cult center | Hermopolis (as a member of the Ogdoad) | |||||||||||||
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| Spouse | Kauket | |||||||||||||
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Kek is the deification of the concept of primordial darkness[1] in the ancient Egyptian Ogdoad cosmogony of Hermopolis.
The Ogdoad consisted of four pairs of deities, four male gods paired with their female counterparts. Kek's female counterpart was Kauket.[2][3][4] Kek and Kauket in some aspects also represent night and day, and were called "raiser up of the light" and the "raiser up of the night", respectively.[5]
The name is written as kk or kkwy with a variant of the sky hieroglyph in ligature with the staff (N2) associated with the word for "darkness" kkw.[6]
- ^ Hornung, E. (1965). "Licht und Finsternis in der Vorstellungswelt Altägyptens". Studium Generale. 8: 72–83.
- ^ Budge, E. A. Wallis (1904a). The Gods of the Egyptians: Or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology. Vol. 1. Methuen & Co. pp. 241, 283–286.
- ^ Budge, E. A. Wallis (1904b). The Gods of the Egyptians: Or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology. Vol. 2. Methuen & Co. pp. 2, 378.
- ^ Steindorff, Georg (1905). The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians. G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 50.
- ^ Budge (1904a), p. 285f, vol. 1.
- ^ Budge (1904a), p. 283, vol. 1.