Kek (mythology)
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This article is about a concept in ancient Egyptian mythology. For other uses, see Kek (disambiguation).
Kekui in hieroglyphs
V31
V31 N2
Kek
V31
V31 y G43 N2 A40
Kekui
V31
V31 y G43 N2 X1
H8 B1
Kekuit
Kuk and Kuket.jpg
Keket
V31
V31 N2 B1
and Kekui
V31
V31 Z7
y N2 A40
depicted at Deir el-Medina.
Kek is the deification of the concept of primordial darkness (kkw sm3w[1]) in the ancient Egyptian Ogdoad cosmogony of Hermopolis.
The Ogdoad consisted of four pairs of deities, four male gods paired with their female counterparts. Kek's female counterpart was Kauket.[2][3][4] Kek and Kauket in some aspects also represent night and day, and were called "raiser up of the light" and the "raiser up of the night", respectively.[5]
The name is written as kk or kkwy with a variant of the sky hieroglyph in ligature with the staff (N2) associated with the word for "darkness" kkw.[6]