Niaut
deity sky Egyptian single tradition · 2
Niaut forms the final divine pair of the Ogdoad with Niau in the Khonsu cosmogony, replacing Amun and Amunet in this variant.
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When
- First attested
- 1550 BCE
- Attested period
- -1550 – 323
- Historical notes
- Forms final divine pair of the Ogdoad with Niau in the Khonsu cosmogony.
Relationships
- consort of
- Niau
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Instead of Amun and Amunet, Niau and Niaut form the final divine pair of the Ogdoad in the Khonsu cosmogony.”
#19346 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“During the New kingdom period (since the 26th dynasty)Amun and Amaunet appear only outside of Thebes as members of the ogdoad while Theban traditions place them a generation above the Ogdoad and replace them with the twin pair Niau and Niaut. On some of Ptolemy Euergetes's monuments at Thebes, on which the new pair of Niau and Niaut complete the number eight of the primordial gods”
#23274 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001