Kauket
Classification: Primordial Goddess

Culture: Kemet

Kauket is one of the eight primordial deities of the Ogdoad cosmology.
She is representative of the chaos and darkness of pre existence of the universe.
She is paired with the god Kek they appear in anthropomorphic form, Kauket with the head of the snake Kek, with the head of from. Some would argue that this ais a reference to binary code
Nun and his wife Naunet symbolized the primordial waters
Kuk and Kauket represented darkness.
Huh and Hauhet the eternity of space.
Amun and Amaunet represent invisibility or the hidden.
As cosmic gods they are represented in anthropomorphic form. They are also sometimes conceived as chthonic animals the male gods appearing as frogs the female as snakes.
The pair epitomized the primordial darkness. The chaos existed without the light, and thus Kek and Kauket came to represent this darkness. They also symbolized obscurity, the kind of obscurity that went with darkness, and night.

She was depicted greeting the rising sun in the form of a baboon

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