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In Egyptian 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.
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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