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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.
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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