Unut
deity earth Egyptian single tradition · 3
Unut is an Egyptian goddess who speared the earth god Geb as punishment for fornicating with Nehmetawy and Nehbet-anet. In the Tebtunis manual, Unut represents the raging aspect of the returning goddess, while Nehmetawy is the pacified one.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 300
- Historical notes
- Attested in the Tebtunis Mythological Manual from the Ptolemaic period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Nehbet-anet, Ay, Bastet, Tefnut, Set, Hathor, Nut, Nephthys, Shu, Naunet, Shepsy, Nehmetawy, Bes
- enemy of
- Geb
- consort of
- Wenenu
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“the goddess Unut speared the earth god Geb for fornicating with Nehmetawy in Khemenu and Nehbet-anet in Dep.”
#23618 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Unut is commonly portrayed as a woman with the head of the desert or Cape hare, Lepus capensis of Egypt. The Egyptians regarded the hare as an example of swiftness, alertness, and keen senses, but the animal’s form was also taken by certain underworld deities.”
#23708 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The inscriptions on the White Chapel of Senusret I link this nome with the cult of Bes and Unut.”
#42149 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat