Amun and Amaunet formed the primordial pair of hiddenness in the Ogdoad of Hermopolis — he the frog-headed god, she the serpent-headed goddess, two faces of the unseen force that existed before creation.
The Ogdoad of Hermopolis comprised eight primordial deities in four male-female pairs representing the pre-creation forces: Nun and Naunet (watery abyss), Amun and Amaunet (hiddenness), Kek and Kauket (darkness), and Heh and Hauhet (boundlessness).
When Theban theology elevated Amun to supreme god during the New Kingdom, Mut displaced Amaunet as his divine consort, absorbing her role in the Theban triad and relegating the primordial goddess to an increasingly marginal cult presence.
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