Unut | |||||
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![]() Unut depicted with the head of a lioness, Louvre Museum | |||||
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Major cult center | Hermopolis | ||||
Symbol | Hare | ||||
Consort | Wenenu |
Unut, also known as Wenut or Wenet, was a prehistoric Ancient Egyptian hare and snake goddess of fertility and new birth.[1]
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.[2] She was taken into the cult of Horus and later of Ra.