Noun

See also: Noun (homonymy)

In the Egyptian Mythology, the paramount ocean is called the Noun (Nwn). One can rather regard Noun as a concept than a god. He is the ocean which made the Vie and which will make the Mort ; without creator, it extends around the world. All the myths of creation have a joint thing, this Noun, from which was born the god-creator.

The Egyptians saw in the the Nile a subsistence of the paramount Ocean.

It is in its center that was born the first god, Atoum then left Re - Atoum - Khépri, Thot, Ptah, Sokaris, Khnoum and many other gods. These gods are called Créateurs and are the divinities referring to the paramount Ocean, they were born from divine chaos, the vital concept. The ocean was thus also called the father of the gods.

Noun was more than one ocean, it was vast stretch of water motionless. Even after the creation of the world, Noun continues to exist to return one day, to destroy it and start again the cycle. After creation, Noun played a part in the destruction of humanity when the men did not respect any more and did not obey any more Re in its old age. Re gathered all the gods and goddesses, including Noun. Noun proposed that Re throws its eye to destroy humanity. And the eye of Re, in the shape of the goddess Sekhmet voyage through Egypt killing all the men.

Noun protected Shou and Tefnout with their birth and their maintained powers démoniaques of chaos (represented like snakes).

In the cosmogony of Khéménou ( Ḫmnw ) (the City of the Eight), Hermopolis Magna, it is divinisé and belonged to the creative Ogdoade with its female double, Nounet.

Noun is represented like a bearded man, with a blue or green body, symbolizing water and the fertility. Sometimes it is also shown with centres females. In one with its hands it holds a frond of palm tree, a symbol of long life and in door still one in its hair.

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