Kek (mythology)
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This article is about a concept in ancient Egyptian mythology. For other uses, see Kek (disambiguation).
Kek is the deification of the concept of primordial darkness[1] in the ancient Egyptian Ogdoad cosmogony of Hermopolis.
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Name in hieroglyphs | Kek Kekui Kekuit | ||||||||||||||||||||
Major cult center | Hermopolis (as a member of the Ogdoad) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Spouse | Kauket |
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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]