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mythology, Kuk (also spelt Keku) was
the deification of the primordial concept
of darkness, in the Ogdoad
cosmogony, his name meaning darkness. As
a concept, Kuk was viewed as androgynous,
his female form being known as Kauket (also
spelt Keket), which is simply the female
form of the word Kuk. Like all 4 dualistic
concepts in the Ogdoad,
Kuk's male form was depicted as a frog,
or as a frog-headed man, and the female
form as a snake, or a snake-headed woman.
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As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity,
and the unknown, and thus chaos. Also, Kuk was seen as that
which occurred before light, thus was known as the bringer-in
of light.
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