Facts about Nun (Egyptian Primordial Waters)
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Ancient Egyptians conceived of Nun as eternal and uncreated, existing before all gods, making him unique among deities as having no origin myth.
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Egyptian temple complexes sometimes featured sacred lakes called Nun that symbolized the primordial waters and were used for ritual purification by priests.
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Nun was venerated alongside his female counterpart Naunet, together forming one of the four male-female pairs in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad of primordial deities.
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The deity Nun was personified as a male figure whose body represented the subterranean waters that continued to surround and support the created world in Egyptian belief.
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In ancient Egyptian cosmology, Nun represented the dark, formless waters of chaos that existed before creation, from which the first mound of earth emerged.