Nun and Naunet form the primordial male-female pair of the watery abyss in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad, the boundless dark waters that existed before creation and from which the world was born.
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).
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