Anonymous ID: aeff6a Oct. 22, 2020, 12:12 p.m. No.11216111   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6164 >>6168 >>6223 >>6470 >>6596

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Kek โ€“ God Of Primordial Darkness & Chaos In Kemet (Ancient Egypt)

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Kek (Kuk or Keku) was one of the oldest Egyptian gods in ancient Egyptian history is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness. The name Kuk means darkness, the god of the darkness of chaos before the creation was began. Kuk has no gender, but has the aspect that can represent as male or female. Kuk is the male aspect and Kauket also known as Keket is the female aspect.

 

According to the myth, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos was the only thing existed on earth before there was land. There were four frog gods and four snake goddesses who lived this chaos. They were four pair of deities, Nun and Naunet, Amun and Amaunet, Heh and Hauhet and Kuk with Kauket who represents water, void, infinite time and darkness. This group of eight gods formed the Ogdoad. Then very first land was rose out of Nun in the form of mound.

 

Kuk appearance portrayed as a man with the head of frog or as a frog itself. Kauket appearance portrayed as a woman with the head of snake or as a snake itself. Kuk represented darkness, obscurity and night. However, although he was a god of the darkness, he was also associated with the dawn and given the title as the โ€œbringer-in of the lightโ€.

 

History

In the oldest representations, Kekui is given the head of a serpent, and Kekuit the head of either a frog or a cat. In one scene, they are identified with Ka and Kait; in this scene, Ka-Kekui has the head of a frog surmounted by a beetle and Kait-Kekuit has the head of a serpent surmounted by a disk.

 

In the Greco-Roman period, Kekโ€™s male form was depicted as a frog-headed man, and the female form as a serpent-headed woman, as were all four dualistic concepts in the Ogdoad.

 

Kek In popular culture

In relation to the 2016 United States presidential election, individuals associated with online message boards, such as 4chan, noted a similarity between Kek and the character Pepe the Frog. This, combined with the frequent use of the term โ€œkekโ€ as a stand-in for the internet slang โ€œlolโ€, which was often paired with images of Pepe, resulted in a resurgence of interest in the ancient deity.

 

http://ancientegyptmag.com/kek-god-primordial-darkness-chaos/

Anonymous ID: aeff6a Oct. 22, 2020, 12:15 p.m. No.11216168   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Kekui and Kekuit

 

The characteristics of the third pair of gods, Kekui, , and Kekuit,, are easier to determine, and it is tolerably certain that these deities represent the male and female powers of the darkness which was supposed to cover over the primeval abyss of water; they have been compared by Dr. Brugsch with the Erebos of the Greeks. In some aspects they appear to represent both the night and the day, that is to say, Kekui is called โ€œthe raiser up of the light,โ€ and Kekuit โ€œthe raiser up of the night.โ€ It is not difficult to see how these deities obtained these names, for Kekui represents that period of the night which immediately precedes the day, and Kekuit is that period of the night which immediately follows the day.

 

At one period Kekui and Kekuit were considered to be gods of Elephantine, and their attributes were identified with those of the Nubian god Khnemu and his female counterpart Sati; but this, no doubt, was a result of regarding Kekui and Kekuit as personifications of the Nile-god แธคฤpi, whose hidden fountains lay beneath the rocks at some part of the Island of Elephantine. According to another view the crocodile-god Sebek, one of whose chief seats of worship was at Kom Ombo, was a personification of the old primeval god Kekui, and in any case Sebek was certainly considered to be one of the principal forms in which the soul of the primeval darkness loved to array itself.[11]

 

In the scenes in which-the forms of the oldest paut or company of the gods are represented Kekui is usually given the head of a serpent, but Kekuit has the head either of a frog or a cat.[12] In one scene Kekui and Kekuit are identified with Ka and Kait,, the former being called the โ€œgrandfather of all the gods,โ€ and the latter the โ€œgrandmother of the divine company,โ€; in this scene Ka or Kekui has the head of a frog surmounted by a beetle, and Kait or Kekuit the head of a serpent surmounted by a disk.

 

https://www.wisdomlib.org/egypt/book/the-gods-of-the-egyptians-vol-1/d/doc6785.html