Also called Amaunet, the Hidden One (feminine).
Their story
Amunet is the female counterpart of Amun among the eight primordial beings of Hermopolis, who together embodied the state before creation. At Thebes she became more than a name in a list: she had her own priests at Karnak and was shown in the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. Statues and reliefs place her with Amun in rites of kingship. Over time Mut largely took her place as Amun's consort, but Amunet kept a local cult into late times.
Best times to give to them
- Opet Festival
- quiet evening prayer
What they like being given
- cool water
- incense
- bread
- papyrus or reeds
How to honour them
- Honour her beside Amun, as the Thebans did at Karnak.
- Spend a few minutes in stillness and darkness, the quality she embodies.
How they can help you
- quiet reflection
- beginnings that are not yet visible
- protection
Symbols
- Red Crown
- papyrus staff
- serpent head (as one of the Ogdoad)
Much less is known about her cult than about Mut's.
Sources
- Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
- Hart, The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
More Egyptian goddesses
- Isis Great of Magic, mother of Horus
- Bastet Protector of the home, lady of joy
- Hathor The Golden One, lady of love and music
- Sekhmet The Powerful One, healer and protector
- Maat Truth, balance and right order
- Nephthys Lady of the House, comforter of the grieving
- Taweret The Great One, guardian of mothers
- Mut The great mother and queen of Thebes