| Unut | |||||
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 Unut Goddess; imagined by a modern artist | |||||
| Name in hieroglyphs |
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| Major cult center | Hermopolis | ||||
| Symbol | Hare | ||||
| Consort | Wenenu | ||||
Unut, also known as Wenut or Wenet, was a prehistoric Ancient Egyptian hare and snake goddess of fertility and new birth.[1]
Known as "The swift one", the animal sacred to her was the hare, but originally, she had the form of a snake. She came from the fifteenth Upper Egyptian province, the Hare nome (called Wenet in Egyptian), and was worshipped with Thoth at its capital Hermopolis (in Egyptian: Wenu). Later she was depicted with a woman's body and a hare's head.[2] She was taken into the cult of Horus and later of Ra.
- ^ San-Aset (2020-04-05). "The Hare Goddess (Wenet Part 2)". Iseum Sanctuary. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ^ Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Cornell University Press 1996, ISBN 0-8014-8384-0, p. 82