| In Egyptian
mythology, Nu (also spelt Nun), is the
deification of the primordial watery abyss,
in the Ogdoad cosmogony,
the name meaning abyss. Due to being a concept,
Nu was viewed as androgynous, his female
form being named Naunet (also spelt Nunet),
which is simply the female form of the word
Nu. Like the others of the 4 primordial
concepts of the Ogdoad,
Nu's male form was depicted as a frog, or
a frog-headed man, and Nu's female form
was pictured as a snake, or a snake-headed
woman. |
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In art, Nu also appears as a bearded man, with blue-green
skin, representing water. Like the other Ogdoad concepts,
Nu did not have temples, or worship, however, Nu was sometimes
represented by a sacred lake, or, as at Abydos, by an underground
stream.
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