Unut

Unut, also known as Wenut or Wenet, was a prehistoric Ancient Egyptian hare and snake goddess of fertility and new birth.

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Deity.type: Egyptian
Deity.name: Unut
Deity.image: Unut Goddess.svg
Deity.caption: The egyptian goddess Unut based on other hare-headed deities
Deity.hiero: wn:n-nw:t-I12
Deity.cult_center: Hermopolis
Deity.symbol: Hare
Deity.consort: Wenenu

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Unut, also known as Wenut or Wenet, was a prehistoric Ancient Egyptian hare and snake goddess of fertility and new birth.

Known as "The swift one", the animal sacred to her was the hare, but originally, she had the form of a snake. She came from the fifteenth Upper Egyptian province, the Hare nome (called Wenet in Egyptian), and was worshipped with Thoth at its capital Hermopolis (in Egyptian: Wenu). Later she was depicted with a woman's body and a hare's head. She was taken into the cult of Horus and later of Ra.