nun, ra y la eternidad
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Nun
by Micha F Lindemans
The primeval water that encircles the entire world and from which everything was created
personified as a god He is considered to be a more ancient god then the sun-god Re who arose
from this water He is called father of the gods which refers to his primacy rather than literal
parentage With the goddess Naunet he forms a pair in the Ogdoad of Hermopolis Nun played no
part in religious rituals and had no temples dedicated to him He was symbolized by the sacred
lakes associated with certain temples such as the ones at Dendera and Karnak Nun is depicted in
human form holding the solar barque above his head
The name of Nun in hieroglyphs
Ogdoad
by Micha F Lindemans
The name of eight Egyptian deities who were especially worshipped in Hermopolis in Upper Egypt
They form the basis of the creation myth The Ogdoad consist of four gods and four goddesses who together personify the essence of the primordial chaos before the creation of the world They
are Nun and Naunet (the primordial water) Huh and Hauhet (infinite space) Kuk and Kauket (darkness) andAmun and Amaunet (representing hidden powers)
From themselves they created the mound upon which lay the egg from which the sun god
emerged The gods of the Ogdoad are represented as frogs or with the head of a frog the goddesses in the shape of a snake or as a woman with the head of a snake Their cult centered on the town of Khemnu (Greek Hermopolis) in Middle Egypt They also had a sanctuary at Medinet
Habu in western Thebes
Nun and Naunet Deities of Chaos and Water
by Caroline Seawright
The Egyptians believed that before the world was formed there was a watery mass of dark directionless chaos In this chaos lived the Ogdoad of Khmunu (Hermopolis) four frog gods and four snake goddesses of chaos These deities were Nun and Naunet (water) Amen and Amaunet (invisibility) Heh and Hauhet (infinity) and Kek and Kauket (darkness) The name of the water of chaos was Nun
Nun
It was from Nun (Nu) that Ra (or Amen another of the Ogdoad who became prominent Middle Kingdom onward and joined with the sun god as Amen-Ra) created himself rising up on the first piece of land - the primeval mound (Benben) out of the water lily (lotus) blossom born from the world egg or as a bnw-bird who then found and landed on the mound In another story it was Thoth who awoke from Nun and sang the unnamed four frog gods and snake goddesses who then continued Thoths song to keep the sun travelling through the sky
The First Time then began and Ra was thought to have created the universe including his children - other gods He brought Maat - order - to chaos Nun was thought to be the father of Ra and from the Middle Kingdom Nun was known as the father of the gods
Utterance 301 To say Thy established-offering is thine O Niw (Nun) together with Nnt (Naunet) ye two sources of the gods protecting the gods with their (your) shade -- Samuel A B Mercer The Pyramid Texts
One story says that Ras children Shu and Tefnut went to explore the waters of Nun After some time Ra believed that they were lost and sent the his Eye out into the chaos to find them When his children were returned to him Ra wept and his tears were believed to have turned into the first humans Nun then became the protector of the twin deities protecting them from the demons in his waters Later on it was Nun who suggested that Ra sent out his Eye to destroy the humans who were in contempt of the sun god Finally it was on Nuns orders that Nut turned into a solar cow and carried Ra up into the sky after the sun god had grown old and wearied of life on earth
Nun was thought to exist both outside the universe and as part of every body of water from the Nile to temple pools The Nile itself was thought to flow from Nuns primordial waters He was thought to play a part in the rituals involved in laying out the foundation for new temples
Nun was also thought to continue to exist as subsoil water beneath the earth and as the source of the annual flooding of the Nile River -- Merriam-Websters Encyclopedia of World Religions An A-Z Guide to the World Religions (1999) p 818
The god was shown as either a frog-headed man or as a bearded man occasionally shown as similar in appearance to Hapi He was often shown rising up out of a body of water carrying the solar barque in his up stretched hands
Though Nun was a being of chaos he was thought to have a beneficial side unlike the water serpent of chaos Apep who was thought to be Ras enemy The Egyptians believed that Apep had been created when the goddess Nit spat into Nun - her spittle turned into the water serpent-demon
The god of chaos didnt have a priesthood nor any temples that have been found and was never worshiped as a personified god Instead he was represented at various temples by the sacred lakes symbolising the chaotic waters before the First Time At Abtu (Abydos) he is represented by an underground water channel at the Osireion
The Ogdoad were the original great gods of Iunu (On Heliopolis) where they were thought to have helped with creation then died and retired to the land of the dead where they continued to make the Nile flow and the sun rise every day Iunu was thought to have been the site of the primeval mound by the priests of the city and they had a sacred lake known as The Sea of Two Knives and an island
known as The Isle of Flames The lake attached to a temple represented Nuns waters and the island was believed to be the primeval mound itself Ra was thought to have come into the world out of the giant water lily which grew on the mound
Out of the water lily created by the Eight came forth Ra who created all things divine and human -- Veronica Ions (1990) Library of the
Worlds Myths and Legends Egyptian Mythology p 30
In Mennefer (Hikuptah Memphis) Nun was linked to the creator god Ptah and known as Ptah-Nun Thus both Ptah and Nun were thought to be the father of the sun god Atem and also thought to be more powerful than the god He was the Heart and the Tongue of the Ennead (the one of intelligence who had the power to command) and thus the one who was in control with the sun god being placed a step below the creator god of Hikuptah
The priests of Waset (Thebes) on the other hand declared that Waset was the site of the Nuns water and the rising of the primeval mound Amen the creator god of Waset was originally one of the Ogdoad and became the most powerful god of the area They believed that Amen changed from the invisible chaos deity into the primeval mound In this form he created the other gods He created the water lily which opened to reveal the child form of Amen-Ra who then finished the creation of the world Nun although he was a powerful force was thought to have been inert until Amen awoke him from torpor and used his chaotic waters to create the universe
Naunet
Image copy Olaf Tausch Naunet (Nunet) on the other hand is more obscure than her husband She was thought to be a snake-headed woman who presided over the watery chaos with Nun Her name was exactly the same as Nuns in hieroglyphs but with the feminine ending for a goddess
In Hikuptah she was imagined to be the mother of the sun god as Nun was the father combined with Ptah creator god of the city
The gods have come into existence from Ptah Ptah on the great seat Ptah-Nun the father (who begot) Atem Ptah-Naunet the mother who bore Atem Ptah the great he is the heart and the tongue of the ennead -- Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad (1976) Numen Vol 23 No 2 p 83
The Egyptians of Khmunu believed that the world was surrounded by mountains that helped support the sky but at their feet was Naunet They imagined that Ra appeared from these mountains being reborn daily from the watery abyss
Naunet was the feminine to Nuns masculine more of a representation of duality than an actual goddess so she was even less of a deity than Nun and more of an abstract However in earlier times she was related to the underworld
In old religious texts Naunet figures as an underworld complement to heaven (Nut) thus becoming a kind of counter-heaven which the sun traverses during the night -- Manfred Lurker (2004) The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses Devils and Demons p 133
One day it was believed that the waters of Nun would eventually inundate the whole world and once again the universe would become the primordial waste of Nuns chaotic waters
Original article httpwwwthekeeporg~kunoichikunoichithemestreamnunhtmlUOWnz2_8LU4ixzz2GvdVM4Ue copy Caroline Seawright
It was from Nun (Nu) that Ra (or Amen another of the Ogdoad who became prominent Middle Kingdom onward and joined with the sun god as Amen-Ra) created himself rising up on the first piece of land - the primeval mound (Benben) out of the water lily (lotus) blossom born from the world egg or as a bnw-bird who then found and landed on the mound In another story it was Thoth who awoke from Nun and sang the unnamed four frog gods and snake goddesses who then continued Thoths song to keep the sun travelling through the sky
The First Time then began and Ra was thought to have created the universe including his children - other gods He brought Maat - order - to chaos Nun was thought to be the father of Ra and from the Middle Kingdom Nun was known as the father of the gods
Utterance 301 To say Thy established-offering is thine O Niw (Nun) together with Nnt (Naunet) ye two sources of the gods protecting the gods with their (your) shade -- Samuel A B Mercer The Pyramid Texts
One story says that Ras children Shu and Tefnut went to explore the waters of Nun After some time Ra believed that they were lost and sent the his Eye out into the chaos to find them When his children were returned to him Ra wept and his tears were believed to have turned into the first humans Nun then became the protector of the twin deities protecting them from the demons in his waters Later on it was Nun who suggested that Ra sent out his Eye to destroy the humans who were in contempt of the sun god Finally it was on Nuns orders that Nut turned into a solar cow and carried Ra up into the sky after the sun god had grown old and wearied of life on earth
Nun was thought to exist both outside the universe and as part of every body of water from the Nile to temple pools The Nile itself was thought to flow from Nuns primordial waters He was thought to play a part in the rituals involved in laying out the foundation for new temples
Nun was also thought to continue to exist as subsoil water beneath the earth and as the source of the annual flooding of the Nile River -- Merriam-Websters Encyclopedia of World Religions An A-Z Guide to the World Religions (1999) p 818
The god was shown as either a frog-headed man or as a bearded man occasionally shown as similar in appearance to Hapi He was often shown rising up out of a body of water carrying the solar barque in his up stretched hands
Though Nun was a being of chaos he was thought to have a beneficial side unlike the water serpent of chaos Apep who was thought to be Ras enemy The Egyptians believed that Apep had been created when the goddess Nit spat into Nun - her spittle turned into the water serpent-demon
The god of chaos didnt have a priesthood nor any temples that have been found and was never worshiped as a personified god Instead he was represented at various temples by the sacred lakes symbolising the chaotic waters before the First Time At Abtu (Abydos) he is represented by an underground water channel at the Osireion
The Ogdoad were the original great gods of Iunu (On Heliopolis) where they were thought to have helped with creation then died and retired to the land of the dead where they continued to make the Nile flow and the sun rise every day Iunu was thought to have been the site of the primeval mound by the priests of the city and they had a sacred lake known as The Sea of Two Knives and an island
known as The Isle of Flames The lake attached to a temple represented Nuns waters and the island was believed to be the primeval mound itself Ra was thought to have come into the world out of the giant water lily which grew on the mound
Out of the water lily created by the Eight came forth Ra who created all things divine and human -- Veronica Ions (1990) Library of the
Worlds Myths and Legends Egyptian Mythology p 30
In Mennefer (Hikuptah Memphis) Nun was linked to the creator god Ptah and known as Ptah-Nun Thus both Ptah and Nun were thought to be the father of the sun god Atem and also thought to be more powerful than the god He was the Heart and the Tongue of the Ennead (the one of intelligence who had the power to command) and thus the one who was in control with the sun god being placed a step below the creator god of Hikuptah
The priests of Waset (Thebes) on the other hand declared that Waset was the site of the Nuns water and the rising of the primeval mound Amen the creator god of Waset was originally one of the Ogdoad and became the most powerful god of the area They believed that Amen changed from the invisible chaos deity into the primeval mound In this form he created the other gods He created the water lily which opened to reveal the child form of Amen-Ra who then finished the creation of the world Nun although he was a powerful force was thought to have been inert until Amen awoke him from torpor and used his chaotic waters to create the universe
Naunet
Image copy Olaf Tausch Naunet (Nunet) on the other hand is more obscure than her husband She was thought to be a snake-headed woman who presided over the watery chaos with Nun Her name was exactly the same as Nuns in hieroglyphs but with the feminine ending for a goddess
In Hikuptah she was imagined to be the mother of the sun god as Nun was the father combined with Ptah creator god of the city
The gods have come into existence from Ptah Ptah on the great seat Ptah-Nun the father (who begot) Atem Ptah-Naunet the mother who bore Atem Ptah the great he is the heart and the tongue of the ennead -- Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad (1976) Numen Vol 23 No 2 p 83
The Egyptians of Khmunu believed that the world was surrounded by mountains that helped support the sky but at their feet was Naunet They imagined that Ra appeared from these mountains being reborn daily from the watery abyss
Naunet was the feminine to Nuns masculine more of a representation of duality than an actual goddess so she was even less of a deity than Nun and more of an abstract However in earlier times she was related to the underworld
In old religious texts Naunet figures as an underworld complement to heaven (Nut) thus becoming a kind of counter-heaven which the sun traverses during the night -- Manfred Lurker (2004) The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses Devils and Demons p 133
One day it was believed that the waters of Nun would eventually inundate the whole world and once again the universe would become the primordial waste of Nuns chaotic waters
Original article httpwwwthekeeporg~kunoichikunoichithemestreamnunhtmlUOWnz2_8LU4ixzz2GvdVM4Ue copy Caroline Seawright
Nun was also thought to continue to exist as subsoil water beneath the earth and as the source of the annual flooding of the Nile River -- Merriam-Websters Encyclopedia of World Religions An A-Z Guide to the World Religions (1999) p 818
The god was shown as either a frog-headed man or as a bearded man occasionally shown as similar in appearance to Hapi He was often shown rising up out of a body of water carrying the solar barque in his up stretched hands
Though Nun was a being of chaos he was thought to have a beneficial side unlike the water serpent of chaos Apep who was thought to be Ras enemy The Egyptians believed that Apep had been created when the goddess Nit spat into Nun - her spittle turned into the water serpent-demon
The god of chaos didnt have a priesthood nor any temples that have been found and was never worshiped as a personified god Instead he was represented at various temples by the sacred lakes symbolising the chaotic waters before the First Time At Abtu (Abydos) he is represented by an underground water channel at the Osireion
The Ogdoad were the original great gods of Iunu (On Heliopolis) where they were thought to have helped with creation then died and retired to the land of the dead where they continued to make the Nile flow and the sun rise every day Iunu was thought to have been the site of the primeval mound by the priests of the city and they had a sacred lake known as The Sea of Two Knives and an island
known as The Isle of Flames The lake attached to a temple represented Nuns waters and the island was believed to be the primeval mound itself Ra was thought to have come into the world out of the giant water lily which grew on the mound
Out of the water lily created by the Eight came forth Ra who created all things divine and human -- Veronica Ions (1990) Library of the
Worlds Myths and Legends Egyptian Mythology p 30
In Mennefer (Hikuptah Memphis) Nun was linked to the creator god Ptah and known as Ptah-Nun Thus both Ptah and Nun were thought to be the father of the sun god Atem and also thought to be more powerful than the god He was the Heart and the Tongue of the Ennead (the one of intelligence who had the power to command) and thus the one who was in control with the sun god being placed a step below the creator god of Hikuptah
The priests of Waset (Thebes) on the other hand declared that Waset was the site of the Nuns water and the rising of the primeval mound Amen the creator god of Waset was originally one of the Ogdoad and became the most powerful god of the area They believed that Amen changed from the invisible chaos deity into the primeval mound In this form he created the other gods He created the water lily which opened to reveal the child form of Amen-Ra who then finished the creation of the world Nun although he was a powerful force was thought to have been inert until Amen awoke him from torpor and used his chaotic waters to create the universe
Naunet
Image copy Olaf Tausch Naunet (Nunet) on the other hand is more obscure than her husband She was thought to be a snake-headed woman who presided over the watery chaos with Nun Her name was exactly the same as Nuns in hieroglyphs but with the feminine ending for a goddess
In Hikuptah she was imagined to be the mother of the sun god as Nun was the father combined with Ptah creator god of the city
The gods have come into existence from Ptah Ptah on the great seat Ptah-Nun the father (who begot) Atem Ptah-Naunet the mother who bore Atem Ptah the great he is the heart and the tongue of the ennead -- Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad (1976) Numen Vol 23 No 2 p 83
The Egyptians of Khmunu believed that the world was surrounded by mountains that helped support the sky but at their feet was Naunet They imagined that Ra appeared from these mountains being reborn daily from the watery abyss
Naunet was the feminine to Nuns masculine more of a representation of duality than an actual goddess so she was even less of a deity than Nun and more of an abstract However in earlier times she was related to the underworld
In old religious texts Naunet figures as an underworld complement to heaven (Nut) thus becoming a kind of counter-heaven which the sun traverses during the night -- Manfred Lurker (2004) The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses Devils and Demons p 133
One day it was believed that the waters of Nun would eventually inundate the whole world and once again the universe would become the primordial waste of Nuns chaotic waters
Original article httpwwwthekeeporg~kunoichikunoichithemestreamnunhtmlUOWnz2_8LU4ixzz2GvdVM4Ue copy Caroline Seawright
Worlds Myths and Legends Egyptian Mythology p 30
In Mennefer (Hikuptah Memphis) Nun was linked to the creator god Ptah and known as Ptah-Nun Thus both Ptah and Nun were thought to be the father of the sun god Atem and also thought to be more powerful than the god He was the Heart and the Tongue of the Ennead (the one of intelligence who had the power to command) and thus the one who was in control with the sun god being placed a step below the creator god of Hikuptah
The priests of Waset (Thebes) on the other hand declared that Waset was the site of the Nuns water and the rising of the primeval mound Amen the creator god of Waset was originally one of the Ogdoad and became the most powerful god of the area They believed that Amen changed from the invisible chaos deity into the primeval mound In this form he created the other gods He created the water lily which opened to reveal the child form of Amen-Ra who then finished the creation of the world Nun although he was a powerful force was thought to have been inert until Amen awoke him from torpor and used his chaotic waters to create the universe
Naunet
Image copy Olaf Tausch Naunet (Nunet) on the other hand is more obscure than her husband She was thought to be a snake-headed woman who presided over the watery chaos with Nun Her name was exactly the same as Nuns in hieroglyphs but with the feminine ending for a goddess
In Hikuptah she was imagined to be the mother of the sun god as Nun was the father combined with Ptah creator god of the city
The gods have come into existence from Ptah Ptah on the great seat Ptah-Nun the father (who begot) Atem Ptah-Naunet the mother who bore Atem Ptah the great he is the heart and the tongue of the ennead -- Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad (1976) Numen Vol 23 No 2 p 83
The Egyptians of Khmunu believed that the world was surrounded by mountains that helped support the sky but at their feet was Naunet They imagined that Ra appeared from these mountains being reborn daily from the watery abyss
Naunet was the feminine to Nuns masculine more of a representation of duality than an actual goddess so she was even less of a deity than Nun and more of an abstract However in earlier times she was related to the underworld
In old religious texts Naunet figures as an underworld complement to heaven (Nut) thus becoming a kind of counter-heaven which the sun traverses during the night -- Manfred Lurker (2004) The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses Devils and Demons p 133
One day it was believed that the waters of Nun would eventually inundate the whole world and once again the universe would become the primordial waste of Nuns chaotic waters
Original article httpwwwthekeeporg~kunoichikunoichithemestreamnunhtmlUOWnz2_8LU4ixzz2GvdVM4Ue copy Caroline Seawright
The gods have come into existence from Ptah Ptah on the great seat Ptah-Nun the father (who begot) Atem Ptah-Naunet the mother who bore Atem Ptah the great he is the heart and the tongue of the ennead -- Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad (1976) Numen Vol 23 No 2 p 83
The Egyptians of Khmunu believed that the world was surrounded by mountains that helped support the sky but at their feet was Naunet They imagined that Ra appeared from these mountains being reborn daily from the watery abyss
Naunet was the feminine to Nuns masculine more of a representation of duality than an actual goddess so she was even less of a deity than Nun and more of an abstract However in earlier times she was related to the underworld
In old religious texts Naunet figures as an underworld complement to heaven (Nut) thus becoming a kind of counter-heaven which the sun traverses during the night -- Manfred Lurker (2004) The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses Devils and Demons p 133
One day it was believed that the waters of Nun would eventually inundate the whole world and once again the universe would become the primordial waste of Nuns chaotic waters
Original article httpwwwthekeeporg~kunoichikunoichithemestreamnunhtmlUOWnz2_8LU4ixzz2GvdVM4Ue copy Caroline Seawright