Nānaw

deity water Egyptian single tradition · 1

Nānaw was a deity associated with primordial water in the cosmogonic dispute between Scythians and Egyptians. According to Dmitry Raevsky's interpretation, Nānaw represented the Egyptian belief that the world was initially fully flooded by water.

Relationships

co occurs with
Agni, Api, Tabiti, Papaios

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“whether the world was initially fully flooded by water or covered with fire, which Raevsky considered to respectively be references to Nānaw and Tabiti”

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