Hauhet- Egyptian PrimordialPrimordial"Lady of Infinity"
Also known as: Hahut and Huhut
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Before creation, there were no horizons. Hauhet was that absence of any edge, the infinite expanse with no boundary. Serpent-headed goddess of boundlessness, paired with Heh in the Ogdoad, she was the room the cosmos needed to exist.
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The Infinite Before
The Hermopolitan Ogdoad named eight forces that existed before creation. Hauhet and her counterpart Heh were the boundlessness: the absence of any edge, any horizon. Before the cosmos existed, there was nothing to contain and nothing to be contained by. She appeared as a serpent-headed woman, he as a frog-headed man.
Together with the other six, they brought about the first dawn. At Hermopolis, temple reliefs show eight figures, four frog-headed and four serpent-headed, raising their arms to lift the first sun into the sky. After creation, the eight died. They were buried at Medinet Habu, and every ten days Amun of Thebes crossed the river to pour libations at their grave.
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